[Elecraft] OT---Sorta A New Version of "Charlie on The MTA"From Our Kingston Trio Days

[Milt -- N5IA]

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
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-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Manthe
Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 8:58 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
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




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