Re:Reality check (Score 1)

- If you assume providing communications to all citizens is important, why only the postal service? My network connection is both far more important and far less reliable. For many other people I know, it's the telephone. The vast majority of the USPS's job, today, seems to be delivering spam.

Straw man. I don't recall mOdQuArK saying that only the postal service is important.

- Even if you assume it needs to be postal service, why isn't the free market handling this? FedEx and UPS both ship to some pretty tiny, remote places. Where, exactly, is the free market failing to deliver to?

Some tiny remote places? Do they ship to all of them? Do they charge the same for delivering to "tiny remote places" as for large cities?

- Even if you assume it needs to be provided by the government, what's the reason for it being provided by the federal government? If there is a remote place which isn't handled by FedEx/UPS (see above), it seems like something which the state government could easily pay them to cover, for less than the price of an entire postal service.

Please explain why you think it would be cheaper for each state to operate its own independent postal service than for the federal government to operate a country-wide postal service.

- Even if you assume it needs to be implemented by the federal government, what's the reason the service needs sovereign immunity? USPS drivers are the worst drivers on the road, but as citizens we can't do squat about it. Whenever people have taken USPS employees to court, the offense invariably gets thrown out, due exclusively to their sovereign immunity. No other division of the federal government seems to require this protection.

Straw man again. mOdQuArK didn't say that the USPS should have sovereign immunity.