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The bill improves address accuracy and mail delivery for Puerto Rico and enhances federal address data and language recognition, but it shifts implementation costs onto USPS/taxpayers and risks short-term disruption, resource diversion, and privacy management challenges if funding and governance are not carefully handled.
Puerto Rico residents will receive more accurate mail delivery and fewer misdeliveries as USPS updates address records, routing, and support for local addressing and diacritics.
Federal agencies (USPS, Census, and other federal data systems) will have more accurate address and name records, improving program eligibility determinations, service delivery, and allocation decisions.
Taxpayers are protected from new direct federal spending because the Act prohibits additional appropriations for implementation.
If implementation is unfunded, USPS may need to reallocate existing funds, causing budget strain that could lead to program cuts, hiring freezes, deferred maintenance, reduced services, or otherwise limit the law's intended benefits.
Updating systems to support diacritics and local addressing and meeting tight deadlines risks short-term disruption, rushed software changes, or implementation errors that could temporarily worsen delivery and data-validation problems.
Implementing the required IT and operations changes will raise costs for USPS and federal systems, potentially increasing expenses borne by taxpayers or forcing reprioritization of other USPS projects.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Directs USPS to update address systems to better recognize Puerto Rico addresses and Spanish diacritical marks, using operational data and consultations, without new appropriations.
Introduced December 4, 2025 by Pablo José Hernández · Last progress December 4, 2025
Requires the U.S. Postal Service to update its address databases, validation, and routing systems to better recognize Puerto Rico addresses and Spanish diacritical marks, and to use operational data to find and fix problem locations. The Postmaster General must consult with the Census Bureau and Puerto Rico local authorities, report progress to Congress for three years, and complete initial system improvements within 180 days, using only funds already available to USPS.