Tag: Lysander Spooner

February 6, 2013

The End of the U.S. Postal Service?

And so Saturday mail comes to an end. Is anyone really that surprised? No competition = No reason to innovate or improve service. Where’s Lysander Spooner when you need him? Here’s more on the U.S. Postal Service ending Saturday deliveries at Fox News: The U.S. Postal Service plans to announce Wednesday that it will end…

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December 8, 2011

The U.S. Postal War?

In 1844, Lysander Spooner launched the American Letter Mail Company, a private alternative to the government-owned U.S. Postal Service. His young firm took the country by storm, leading to dramatic improvements in delivery time and vast decreases in postage costs. But the U.S. Postal Service didn’t appreciate the competition and fought to regain its monopoly….

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