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

[Nr4c]

Sorry but the Richmond Virginia Postal Service delivered on Sundays during two weeks before Christmas during part of the 1950's. 

Just like before eFile they stayed open 'till midnight on April 15th. 

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...nr4c. bill


> On Apr 26, 2014, at 4:37 PM, "Milt -- N5IA" <n5ia at zia-connection.com> 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
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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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