Mail Traffic Deaths Reporting Act of 2025

The bill would direct the Postmaster General to issue regulations, within 90 days of enactment, requiring the collection, tracking, and public reporting of information about deaths and injuries from traffic crashes involving vehicles transporting mail. Any Postal Service employee or contractor would be required to report qualifying crashes — those resulting in a fatality, injury requiring off-scene medical treatment, or disabling vehicle damage — to the Postal Service within three days using a standard form. Reports would include the date, time, location, nature of the crash, contractor identity, injury and fatality counts, and contributing factors, and would need to be updated as outcomes change.

The Postal Service would also be required to maintain a continuously updated internal digital database compiling all crash reports, and to publish an annual public report with aggregated statistics, trends, and analysis, presented without personally identifying any individual. Contractors who fail to meet the reporting deadline would be subject to fines, contract suspension, or termination, with penalties scaled to crash severity and the frequency of noncompliance.

Postal Service employees who drive mail-transport vehicles, contractors of any tier who transport mail under Postal Service agreements, and the general public as recipients of the annual crash-data report. The Postmaster General and Postal Service management would be directed to build and enforce the reporting infrastructure, and contractor firms face financial and contractual penalties for noncompliance.

Without a uniform reporting requirement, crash deaths and injuries involving Postal Service vehicles — operated by both employees and a large contracted carrier network — can go uncounted in any public record. Standardized reporting and annual public summaries would let policymakers, safety advocates, and the public assess whether USPS vehicle operations are improving or worsening over time, and would create accountability pressure on contractors.

The Postmaster General must issue implementing regulations within 90 days of enactment, create a standard crash-report form, and build compliance-monitoring mechanisms (which may incorporate existing reporting systems). Employees and contractors self-report qualifying crashes within three days; the Postal Service aggregates those reports into an internal database and publishes a de-identified annual public summary. The Postal Service has discretion to set penalty levels for contractor noncompliance, weighing crash severity and repeat violations. Injured reporters may receive an alternative filing deadline.