HR758-119

What This Bill Does

The Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025 creates a crash-reporting system for vehicles transporting mail. Within 90 days, the Postmaster General must issue regulations requiring collection, tracking, and public reporting of deaths and injuries from traffic crashes involving mail vehicles. USPS employees and contractors engaged in transporting mail must report injury or fatality crashes within three days, unless serious injury prevents timely reporting under procedures the Postal Service creates. Reports must include details such as date, time, location, crash nature, contractor identification, numbers of injuries and fatalities, and contributing factors. Employees and contractors must update reports if crash-caused injuries or fatalities change. USPS must create a standard form, maintain a continuously updated internal digital database, publish an annual public report with aggregated statistics, trends, and analysis, and impose appropriate contractor penalties such as fines, suspension, or termination for missed reporting deadlines.

Who Benefits and How

Road-safety advocates benefit because USPS crash deaths and injuries would be tracked in a dedicated database and summarized in an annual public report. Congress oversight committees benefit because aggregated statistics, trends, and analysis make Postal Service transportation safety easier to monitor. Communities affected by mail-vehicle crashes benefit from more transparency about crash frequency, fatalities, injuries, and contributing factors. Postal safety managers benefit from standardized crash data that can identify recurring risks in employee, contractor, route, or vehicle operations.

Who Bears the Burden and How

The United States Postal Service must write regulations, build a standard reporting form, maintain an internal digital database, publish annual reports, and enforce compliance. USPS employees transporting mail must report qualifying injury or fatality crashes within three days and update reports when injury or fatality information changes. USPS mail delivery contractors must meet the same reporting deadlines and face fines, contract suspension, or contract termination for noncompliance. Contractor compliance teams must collect crash details, identify the contractor involved, and track contributing factors without exposing personally identifiable information in the public report.

Key Provisions

• Requires the Postmaster General to issue crash-reporting regulations within 90 days of enactment.
• Requires USPS employees transporting mail to report injury or fatality crashes within three days.
• Requires USPS contractors at any tier transporting mail to report injury or fatality crashes within three days.
• Requires reports to include date, time, location, crash description, contractor identity, injury and fatality counts, and contributing factors.
• Requires a standard USPS reporting form and a continuously updated internal digital crash database.
• Requires annual public reports with aggregated statistics, trends, and analysis while protecting personal identities.
• Authorizes contractor penalties, including fines, suspension, or termination, for failure to report by the deadline.