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2024-12-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

A man and his mailbox: How Ohioan's dispute over rural mail delivery became a federal case

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Posted by Besoeker 2024-12-20 02:17|| || Front Page|| [11139 views ] Top

#1 Postal Service operates pretty much as a monopoly. Only their serviced mail gets into those mailboxes. Because the way the law is worded, those are not your mail boxes but belong to USPS. When some yahoo blows one up, its a federal offense, not local. Fundamentally, what the court is going to be asked is whether the USPS can operate as such. The court can punt on the issue in accordance with the powers of Congress per Article I, Section 8 to establish post roads and post offices.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-20 07:07|| 2024-12-20 07:07|| Front Page Top

#2
Gov. access to a property should stop at the Mailbox, and that box is located at the curb.

BTW: If the US Postal System is a Gov run operation. Why is their Web address USPS.COM and not .GOV?

"Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site.
We can’t connect to the server at usps.gov. Did you mean to go to www.usps.gov?"

Posted by NN2N1 2024-12-20 08:37|| 2024-12-20 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ trying to hid the fact. Remember the 'old' days that the PO was pure political patronage. You knew exactly who to go to complain. Then they created the Frankenstein monster of a government/non-government entity to cover their behinds.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-12-20 10:23|| 2024-12-20 10:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, rural is different.
We get'em driven over, used for batting practice, shot full of holes or stuffed with sail skunks.
Packages left at the gate are also crushed or just disappear.

I use a box at the PO, a federal institution, and get to it once or twice a week.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-12-20 15:04|| 2024-12-20 15:04|| Front Page Top

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