<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Paul Rumelhart <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:godshatter@yahoo.com">godshatter@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>If I remember right, the USPS has a monopoly on regular postal mail (not over-nighted, non-packages), so FedEx and UPS cannot, by law, compete in this area. Aren't government-granted monopolies great?</span></div>
</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Actually, the USPS doesn't just have a statutory monopoly: it has a Constitutional monopoly. A federal postal monopoly was expressly intended by the Founding Fathers. </div>
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