At 20:40 7/8/99 -0400, Joe L. wrote:
>desire of the Post Office to keep its monopoly on First Class mail. Postal
>Inspectors have the power to inspect business correspondence sent via
>"non-post office" means. If it is deemed by the postal inspector that the
>letter "should" have gone via USPS the company can be fined.

In fairness to the USPS, the monopoly on first-class mail is very important
to them because they have to serve every address in the country, even if
you have to get there on a dogsled.  The commercial shippers have perfect
freedom to service only those areas which are profitable, and guess
what?  Those are the areas they serve.  If commercial companies took away
the profitable business, postal rates would climb enormously, which would
be unfair to those in isolated areas. The monopoly is theirs (USPS) by law,
as is the requirement to serve every address.

david
David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net