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The bill standardizes the name of a Buffalo post office to improve address and record clarity for residents and government records, while imposing only minor transitional confusion and small local update costs.
Residents and mail users in Buffalo will have a clearly named post office building, making addresses and local references consistent and simplifying mail delivery and wayfinding.
Federal employees, local governments, and map/databases will have uniform federal records and maps referencing the new post office name, reducing administrative confusion in official documents and datasets.
Residents and mail users may experience minor transitional confusion for mail delivery or directions until maps, navigation systems, and local references are updated.
Local governments and federal offices may incur small incidental costs to update signage, stationery, directories, and internal databases to reflect the new name.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Designates the U.S. Postal Service facility at 1200 William Street, Room 200, Buffalo, New York as the "William J. Donovan Post Office Building" and directs that any federal reference to that facility use the new name. The change is purely nominal and creates no new funding, deadlines, or agency duties beyond updating references and records.
Introduced February 27, 2025 by Timothy M. Kennedy · Last progress February 27, 2025