P and postal delivery

[Don Higgins]

Article I, section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution grants Congress merely says Congress has the power "to establish post offices and post roads." The wiki article says this "has been interpreted as a de facto Congressional monopoly over the delivery of mail. Accordingly, no other system for delivering mail – public or private – can be established, absent Congress's consent." When did that interpretation become current and who interpreted to mean that? would seem to be relevant questions to Lot 49.

--- On Fri, 1/18/13, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: P and postal delivery
To: "David Morris" <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Date: Friday, January 18, 2013, 3:00 PM

United States Postal Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_ServiceHistory · Current operations · Budget · Governance and ...It is one of the few government agencies explicitly authorized by the United States Constitution........______________________________________________________________________________________
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

re P's American themes: in discussing The Tristero's alternate mail delivery operation, has it been mentioned that the US Postal System, I.e. postal delivery, is mentioned as a right in the US


Constitution, which I just seemed to learn?

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