Colorado town gets its own ZIP Code—a quiet win for local mail delivery
H.R. 448 — Silver Cliff Community Act · Filed by Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jan 15, 2025 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill directs the U.S. Postal Service to assign a unique ZIP Code (81249) to Silver Cliff, Colorado within 180 days. Currently, Silver Cliff likely shares a ZIP Code with nearby areas. The bill benefits Silver Cliff residents and businesses by giving the town its own postal identity, which may improve mail delivery efficiency and local economic visibility.
Why we flagged it
The bill's sole operative mechanism is a straightforward directive to the USPS to assign a specific ZIP Code to a named Colorado town. It is a routine local postal administration matter.
What the text implies
- ZIP Code assignment may trigger automatic updates to property tax records, voter registration databases, and commercial directories tied to postal geography, affecting how Silver Cliff is administratively classified.
- Separate ZIP Code may enable Silver Cliff to establish independent postal delivery routes, potentially affecting mail delivery schedules for neighboring areas currently served by the same code.
- Local businesses may benefit from improved online shipping address recognition and reduced delivery errors, indirectly supporting e-commerce and mail-order operations in the town.
Section numbers refer to the bill text the analysis read — linked under Primary records below.
Who it affects
Silver Cliff residents and businesses gain a dedicated postal identity, which typically improves mail delivery reliability, enables independent business registration, and strengthens local civic identity. No identifiable cost to other citizens.
Named in the bill
United States Postal Service (USPS), Silver Cliff, Colorado, ZIP Code 81249
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Republicans.
- Jan 15, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jan 15, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 lobbying clients named this bill on 1 disclosure filings across 1 quarter, Mar 2026 to Mar 2026. Those filings disclosed $19,750,000 in lobbying spend. A filing names 253 bills on average, so that figure is what each filing reported, not a share belonging to this bill.
More lobbying clients named this bill than 0% of bills with at least one filing.
Brittany Pettersen, the sponsor, reported $1,054,365 in PAC receipts in the 2026 cycle.
- Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A. — $19,750,000 on 1 filing
Lobbying Disclosure Act filings through Jul 14, 2026. A filing shows who paid to lobby on a bill it names, not what changed.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (355 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 16,222 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Mar 2026 to Mar 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 14, 2026 · page rendered 2026-10-20.
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