Generous people in New Hampshire!

[GotBackHome]

Originally Posted by CrazyDave

Post office is not a government enterprise. Roads. Police and fire are local government ( sorry that I did not clarify but local government at the forefront is exactly what the founders had in mind. local government is easier to keep a handle on and they are more accountable ) Medicare, Social Security..both a joke, public schools which are strangled with the many burdens of the federal government are also a joke. Welfare.. a sick joke. Charity works best is you allow folks to give instead of forcing them to.

hope you don't belong to AARP, Dave, seeing as they lobby a lot against medicare reform and want to keep it and SS the joke that it is.

[lreznick]

Originally Posted by CrazyDave

Post office is not a government enterprise. Roads.

Sorry, Dave, but the Postal Service is a federal government enterprise, and their monopoly on 1st class mail delivery is mandated by federal law. (Remember that monopolies can only exist through government support.) If you'll reread Section 8, Clause 7 (The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net) you'll see the authorization to establish Post Offices, as well as Post Roads as you mentioned.

However, there is no Constitutional requirement that the federal government Post Offices must have a monopoly on any type of delivery or class of mail. The problem is the monopoly eliminates competition for 1st class and needn't exist. Competing businesses for every other class offer great customer service and satisfaction. Nothing in the Constitution says the Post Offices must be subsidized by federal funds, merely that they are established. Free market competition could set up any number of competing delivery offices every one of which could meet the Constitutional requirement and fit general characteristics set by Congress. Getting government out of that business would benefit everybody through the competition. Consider this article from a few years ago: What Would Happen If the Post Office Had Competition? by Wilton D. Alston.