[cripplecreek]

I wonder how people would feel if congress were to step in and tell FedEx “You can charge this much and must set this much aside for retirees”.

[agere_contra]

If FedEx were a Government agency - run with the typical crushing inefficiency of all Government agencies - and its pension liabilities were likely to end up on the back of the taxpayer in the case of failure then I bet people would be just fine with Congress trying to rein in the disaster before it happened.

[zeugma]

I wonder how people would feel if congress were to step in and tell FedEx “You can charge this much and must set this much aside for retirees”.

If FedEx demanded and recieved a monopoly from the government for certain classes of delivery (like the USPS has for 1st class mail), then perhaps they would be under congress' thumb the same way the USPS is.

The USPS is at least a constitutional service, unlike much done by Fedgov today so I don't have as big an issue with it as I do most government agencies.

To establish post offices and post roads;  (Art. 1 Sec. 8)