Support Our Troops Shipping Relief Act of 2025

“3402. Treatment of humanitarian care packages sent to members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas

“(a) Definitions—In this section:

“(1) Armed Forces—The term Armed Forces has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) of title 10.

“(2) Covered shipment—The term covered shipment means a shipment that—

“(A) is addressed to a military mail address or other destination authorized by the Secretary of Defense; and

“(B) consists of one or more humanitarian care packages.

“(3) Humanitarian care package—The term humanitarian care package means a parcel containing donated goods intended solely for the comfort, welfare, or morale of members of the Armed Forces at duty stations overseas.

“(4) Military mail address—The term military mail address means an Army Post Office (APO), Fleet Post Office (FPO), or Diplomatic Post Office (DPO) address designated by the Secretary of Defense for receipt of mail by members of the Armed Forces stationed overseas.

“(b) Domestic treatment of military mail

“(1) In general—The Postal Service shall treat any covered shipment as domestic mail for all purposes, regardless of destination.

“(2) Regulations—Not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of the Support Our Troops Shipping Relief Act of 2025, the Postmaster General shall prescribe regulations to carry out paragraph (1).

“(3) Simplified customs declaration requirement—In implementing paragraph (1), to the extent that the Postal Service requires a customs declaration form for covered shipments, the Postal Service shall accept a simplified customs declaration form, which may list categories of contents (such as “snack foods”, “personal hygiene items”, “letters and cards”, or similar general descriptions) instead of the classification under the Harmonized System or country-of-origin information for each article in the shipment.”