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Murderous Reform: A Plan to Privatize Postal Profits at Public Expense

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The National Academy of Public Administration has released a 'Work-in-Progress' report entitled 'Restructuring the U.S. Postal System: The Case for a Hybrid Public-Private Postal System.' The Academy is now embarking on a study of this proposal, which would privatize a large portion of the country's postal system. The proposal is predictably one-dimensional -- as befits men who seemingly have little or no sense of the public service mission for which the Post Office was created 238 years ago under the direction of Benjamin Franklin. Its purpose, then as now, was democracy and equality, not efficiency or profit. Thus, the report omits much.

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Postal office by BFalcon on Friday, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:31:15 PM
Taking away the People's right to have their own postal syst by CommonSenseForCommonGood.com on Friday, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:48:20 PM
Private post offices make sense! by Ira Herson on Friday, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:38:30 PM
Perhaps it's Time by FrankieC on Saturday, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:09:58 AM
Lysander Spooner - American Hero by June Genis on Saturday, Jan 12, 2013 at 11:29:10 AM
Competition by Alan Pyeatt on Sunday, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:44:44 PM