P and postal delivery

[Markekohut]

I'm game. 

Remember the other game of where folk could reliably meet--for a hand-off, say --if they did not know the town nor each other? ...yes, the P.O.! 

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On Jan 21, 2013, at 4:41 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I think COL49 could be adapted into an interesting film, updated for the screen by placing it in the present internet days.  How much more subversive is the idea of  off-the-grid mail being hand-delivered surreptitiously at a time when They, meanwhile, are collecting data with every hit of the "send" button!
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> Here's a question: could we hold an experiment?  Is there some way I could hand-deliver a letter or small parcel (containing a book, say) to someone I knew who could eventually get it (via intermediate friends) to Monte, who could get it (via intermediate friends) to Mark, who could get it to (x other p-listers), eventually ending up in Milwaukee, where it would be delivered to Dave Monroe?  Not sure exactly what the rules would be - maybe cars, trains and buses allowed, but no airplanes, what with their identity-probing security.  It's never made explicit how, exactly the Trystero worked.  If not someone's actual address, what sort of drop-off point could be used?
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> Laura
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: David Morris 
> Sent: Jan 20, 2013 11:35 PM 
> To: Don Higgins 
> Cc: Pynchon List 
> Subject: Re: P and postal delivery 
> 
> It's interesting that P would have focused so early on what we in the net era now realize is all power.
> 
> On Saturday, January 19, 2013, Don Higgins wrote:
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>> 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.
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