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The U.S. Postal Service and the Constitution

HuffingPaintPost Wrote: Aug 05, 2012 10:50 PM
I'm trying to figure out why a mail carrier who does the exact same things as a USPS carrier but working for a private company could not be friendly with his customers.

If my inbox is any indication, a lot of Americans apparently believe that an amendment to the Constitution would be necessary to privatize the U.S. Postal Service. That is simply not true.

Article 1, Section 8 says that [The Congress shall have the power] to establish Post Offices and Post Roads. It does not say that the federal government shall have the exclusive power to deliver mail. Nor does it require that the mail be delivered by an agent of the federal government to every home in the country, six days a week.

In a 1996 Cato book,

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