QUOTE Many people consider the main cost to be the inefficiency and expense wrought by the absence of competition. To such people, the Postal Service is a relatively benevolent expression of government, offering a vital service that would otherwise not exist on the free market. The history of the USPS suggests something different, however. It chronicles centuries of civil-rights violations that began at the very birth of a national postal system and that have nothing to do with providing a service. ... The post office routinely used repressive tactics against socialist and labor periodicals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to control the flow of radical information. ... On a less official basis, the Post Office Department began to keep a list of everyone who received the questionable mail. UNQUOTE fee.org/the_freeman/detail/the-post-office-as-a-violation-of-constitutional-rights#axzz2cOImiwiG
Posted on: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 06:04:00 +0000
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