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

[Phil Wheeler]

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: 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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