Life just got more expensive.
My wife told me they just raised first class postage by three cents. I was totally unaware. It didn’t make the big headlines. I guess health care and the Super Bowl are more on people’s minds.
This type of action usually brings out cries to do away with the Post Office and turn it over to private enterprise. After all, private business could do a better job, just look at UPS and Fed Ex. There is a problem with that solution. The existence of the Post Office is one of the responsibilities given to congress by the Constitution. It is short and sweet.
Article 1, Section 8 begins with the word, “The Congress shall have power...” and by my count the seventh power of the legislature is “To establish post offices and post roads;”
It doesn’t say how it is to be established or maintained but it is clear that the Founding Fathers felt that being able to communicate was something that should not be in the hands of the states or individuals.
It would seem that there is also justification for federal highway funds also.
The existence of a Federal Postal System is constitutional.
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