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Legislator Postal is known as an environmentalist. She authored the toughest recycled newsprint law in the nation and sponsored legislation to recycle waste automotive tires. She has sponsored resolutions to establish the Drinking Water Protection Program and the new Clean Wastewater Program. Her resolutions are preserving the largest environmentally sensitive parcel of open space in western Suffolk County in Wheatley Heights/Dix Hills.

She has sponsored tax-free weeks in Suffolk County and the removal of sales tax on clothing purchases under $110 as of March 1, 2000. She has supported and sponsored transfer of hundreds of parcels of County-owned property for development as affordable housing. She was a co-sponsor of the first legislation creating child care for County employees.

Legislator Postal has been honored for her work by a wide variety of organizations including the American Jewish Congress, the NAACP, and the National Organization for Women. She has been re-elected to the Suffolk County Legislature six times and has been endorsed by the New York League of Conservation Voters, the Women’s Political Caucus, the Empire Pride Agenda.

Legislator Postal sponsored legislation to protect dry cleaning consumers through licensing establishments, requiring posting of prices and, prohibiting pricing by gender.