• privatize the U.S. Postal Service and
• repeal the Private Express Statutes that preserve the postal monopoly.

Jeff Jacoby writes:
     Something is not wrong -- intrinsically wrong, bad in and of itself -- merely because it is illegal. It is against the law to put anything without postage into someone's mailbox. If your neighbor prints flyers advertising a yard sale and drops one into each letterbox on the street, he has broken the law, but would anyone say he has done something evil?

• Postal Service Cato
• POSTAL SERVICE (lp)
• A Twenty-first-Century Postal Service by Rick Geddes
• Can the Market Deliver Letters?
• A first-class proposal: It's time to privatize the U.S. Post Office
• Whose Mailbox is it Anyway?
• An Untouchable Monopoly: The United States Postal Service
• Europeans Leading on Postal Privatization

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