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To: proudpapa

Why is the government even involved in the freaking mail business?


12 posted on 05/18/2009 11:08:34 PM PDT by dragnet2
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To: dragnet2

Well, it’s based on the freakin’ Constitution.

It’s based on the Postal Clause in Article One of the United States Constitution, empowering Congress “To establish post offices and post roads,” it became the Post Office Department in 1792.


14 posted on 05/18/2009 11:31:53 PM PDT by cydcharisse
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To: dragnet2

By having nationalized postage rates, it protects the smaller communities in the middle of nowhere.

If you’re in Boston, it costs the same to mail a letter to Wasilla, Alaska as it does to Portland, Maine.

Since most small towns in the middle of nowhere vote the same way I do, I won’t complain to loudly, that they’re getting a “break”.


24 posted on 05/20/2009 1:38:49 PM PDT by proudpapa (Obama - Worst One Ever!)
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