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To: kingattax

Isn’t delivery of mail one of the feds constitutional duty. More so than the hundreds of other things the fed gets involved in...


34 posted on 09/07/2011 11:03:41 AM PDT by goat granny
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To: goat granny

Yes it is mandated that universal service be provided, bit it does not specify frequency so Congress could eliminate a day or two of service.
If US postal service goes away imagine the Teamsters delivering voting ballots.


36 posted on 09/07/2011 11:10:55 AM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing!)
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To: goat granny

Not a duty of the government. But it is an enumerated power that was granted to Congress, as per Article 1, Section 8:

“The Congress shall have power ... To establish Post Offices and post Roads”

If Congress chooses not to exercise that power, then I would imagine that private industry will pick up the slack.


38 posted on 09/07/2011 11:13:17 AM PDT by kidd (S&P gives Obama an 'AA+'...Obama's only published grade)
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