1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Mandating Advisable and Informed Locations and Solutions Act or the MAILS Act . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Post office The term post office — (A) means a facility that— (i) is owned or leased by the Postal Service; (ii) is managed by a Postmaster; (iii) has responsibility for— (I) customer services; (II) local delivery; and (III) receipt and dispatch of all classes of mail; and (iv) may have responsibility for processing and distribution of mail for other such facilities in the surrounding geographic area; and (B) includes a remotely managed post office, a part-time post office, and an administrative post office. (2) Postal service The term Postal Service means the United States Postal Service. (3) Temporary relocation The term temporary relocation means a temporary relocation of retail services from a post office to support Postal Service business for a holiday, special event, or overflow business, as described in paragraph (a)(2)(i) of section 241.4 of title 39, Code of Federal Regulations. 3. Requests for new post offices Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Postal Service shall establish by regulation a formal process for a local government official to request a new post office within the locality. 4. Communication relating to post office relocation The Postal Service shall amend section 241.4 of title 39, Code of Federal Regulations, to provide the following: (1) Community input The Postal Service may not implement a temporary relocation, including for a commemorative event, for a period longer than 2 days without collecting and considering community input under paragraph (c) of that section. (2) Notification (A) Elected officials Not later than 30 days before the date of a temporary relocation, the Postal Service shall— (i) submit to 1 or more local elected officials in the area in which the affected post office is located a written outline of the proposal