Re "the upcoming Sabbath day where there has NOT
been any USPS mail delivery since 1912": Yes, but
they now deliver for Amazon on Sundays!
Phil w7ox
On 4/26/14, 1:37 PM, Milt -- N5IA wrote:
My recently shipped Elecraft part arrived via
USPS in three days time, from California to New
Mexico, via who knows where.
The United States Postal Service is a federal
government agency.
The authority for the creation of the Post
Office is found in the U.S. Constitution at
Article I, Section 8, which says, in part:
"The Congress shall have power to lay and
collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to
pay the debts and provide for the common defense
and general welfare of the United States; but
all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform
throughout the United States…
To establish post offices and post roads;"
Yes, it’s in the same clause that allows
Congress to tax us and to raise an army and a navy.
US Postal Service workers are FEDERAL employees.
The US Congress writes the rules, postal
regulations and laws controlling the Post
Office..... a postal crime including graffiti on
a post office wall....is a FEDERAL CRIME.
The U.S. Postal Service is, by law, an
"independent establishment" of the executive
branch.
The agency doesn't normally use tax dollars for
operations, except when it needs a loan to cover
all the unfunded debt, it must, by Congressional
act, get that loan from the US Treasury. The
USPS CANNOT borrow money from a private lender.
The Postal Service has been borrowing billions
of dollars from taxpayers in recent years to
make up shortfalls caused by declining mail
volumes and a 2006 congressional mandate to
prefund retirement health care benefits.
If I destroy a mailbox, it is a federal offense.
If I attack a mail person, it is a federal offense.
If I rob a mail truck, it is a federal offense.
And if your Elecraft part does not arrive in
time, and does a 3-times-around tour of the good
ol' USA, it is NOT a federal offense.
73, and enjoy the upcoming Sabbath day where
there has NOT been any USPS mail delivery since
1912.
de Milt, N5IA
============================================================
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Manthe
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 8:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT---Sorta A New Version
of "Charlie on The MTA"From Our Kingston Trio Days
Our tax dollars don't support the USPS.
73,
Scott, N9AA
-----
No virus found in this message.
Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
Version: 2014.0.4570 / Virus Database: 3920/7400
- Release Date: 04/26/14
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home:
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list:
http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Message delivered to [email protected]
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Message delivered to [email protected]
