[redpoll]

>>>The news is crushing in many remote communities where the post office is often the heart of the town and the closest link to the rest of the country.<<<
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Name these communities.<<<

How about every Alaskan community with a population under about 3,000?

It is a sad moment when the government decides that it is going to ignore its Constitutional obligations - the post office is mentioned by name - while piling on huge amounts of crap not mentioned at all in Article 1, Section 8.

Just pointing it out.

[Eska]

They'll close our post office; but spend millions running Yukon Charlie Nat park that only gets several hundred visitors a year. They'll have fed cops safety checking subsistence fisherman and yelling at people on the shore to stop or face an arrest for refusing an order. Everybody ignores them, then they start waving shotguns around and handcuffing people. Got the river communities worked up; but got to close the PO. Maybe they should fire all the fed park people and let Yukon Charlie revert back to the wild nature it once was. Keep our post office open. Our road washed out last summer, closed all winter, and we mail our can goods in, or don't eat. Then they'll be upset when we shoot all the moose & caribou.

But ya know what, I'd take the PO closed if they did the same with every other fed agency. About time for the Tar & Feathers.

[re_nortex]

...the post office is mentioned by name - while piling on huge amounts of crap not mentioned at all in Article 1, Section 8.

Please see my earlier post (#22) in this thread.

What would it take to completely shutter the USPS? Would an amendment be necessary because of what's widely known as the "Postal Clause"? Or is there some form of a "Sunset Provision" that could be applied retroactively?

Failing that, what measures could be taken to reduce the role of the USPS to that only minimally satisfying the letter of the Constitution?

[ColdOne]

Name these communities.<<< How about every Alaskan community with a population under about 3,000? It is a sad moment when the government decides that it is going to ignore its Constitutional obligations - the post office is mentioned by name - while piling on huge amounts of crap not mentioned at all in Article 1, Section 8. Just pointing it out. Glad you did point this out.

[triumphant values]

It is a sad moment when the government decides that it is going to ignore its Constitutional obligations - the post office is mentioned by name - while piling on huge amounts of crap not mentioned at all in Article 1, Section 8.

Just pointing it out.

I hear ya. Here's what I wrote on another postal thread:

10,000 government agencies with no constitutional basis, and we get thread after thread after thread deriding one of the few that is specifically mentioned.

I mean seriously?