explicit govt monopoly rent-seeking (law abuse)
The problem dates from the early 1930s, when utility companies delivered their bills by mailbox through their own employees out reading meters. The Postal Service saw a huge drop in revenue and decided to act. Enforcement became even more important in 1970, Dalton wrote, when Congress mandated that the Postal Service be self-sustaining.
From http://latimes.com/editions/orange/la-000000534jan03.story?coll=la%2Dedition...
Postal Service Delivers Stern Warning on Mailbox Misuse Enforcement: Agency tells Orange mobile home park residents to stop using receptacles to send notices, rent bills, newsletters sans postage. ..... Q: When government acts like this how are they different from a gang? A: Both rule by violence and terror, but a gang claims no moral authority.
On Thursday 03 January 2002 05:55 pm, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
The problem dates from the early 1930s, when utility companies delivered their bills by mailbox through their own employees out reading meters. The
In my home town the P.O. got in a snit 'cause the local newspaper was putting its paper in people's mailboxes. Solution ? People put up separate boxes for the paper. I think you still have to get some sort of certification from the P.O. if you want to manufacture or sell a box to be used as a mailbox. Go figure. I always liked my friends idea of solving the green house effect by requiring everyone in the US to permanently store the junk mail they receive thus storing the CO2 in the paper (that or requring everyone to stop breathing for 5 minutes). -Neil
I always liked my friends idea of solving the green house effect by requiring everyone in the US to permanently store the junk mail they receive thus
I think that is an excellent idea.
storing the CO2 in the paper (that or requring everyone to stop breathing for 5 minutes).
That would solve not only the greenhouse effect but also the overpopulation problem.
On Thursday, January 3, 2002, at 05:16 PM, Neil Johnson wrote:
On Thursday 03 January 2002 05:55 pm, Anonymous via the Cypherpunks Tonga Remailer wrote:
The problem dates from the early 1930s, when utility companies delivered their bills by mailbox through their own employees out reading meters. The
In my home town the P.O. got in a snit 'cause the local newspaper was putting its paper in people's mailboxes. Solution ? People put up separate boxes for the paper.
This kind of scheme falls apart as soon as even a few people _don't_ put up the separate boxes. Or tell the company they have them, but then take them down. Because the billing company, or any other deliverer of mail, is swamped by keeping track of who has special boxes, who needs their bills mailed, etc.
I think you still have to get some sort of certification from the P.O. if you want to manufacture or sell a box to be used as a mailbox. Go figure.
Anyone can build and mark a box with "W.A.S.T.E." or some other label. Calling it "Unites States Mail" is where the sticky issues come in. --Tim May --Tim May "Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound"
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