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From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv
Subject: Re: [OT] Time to close down the Post Office?
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 03:27:41 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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In <vilth3$33hjk$9@dont-email.me> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:

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>I can't argue that he's wrong. I think we've been trending this way for 
>a long time. Many years ago, the government, presumably in an attempt to 
>placate the postal unions, made it law that ONLY the Post Office could 
>carry letters and they also enacted in law that for package delivery, 
>couriers had to charge at least 3 times what Canada Post charged.

There are similar laws (with different numbers) in the US, which
is why in areas where houses have mailbozes on the streets there
will often be a second one with, typically, the name of the local
newspaper (remember those???) on it.


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