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** Reply to message from Kris Steenhaut <kris.steenhaut@hccnet.nl> on Sat, 13
Aug 2005 09:12:21 +0200

> Lewis G Rosenthal schreef:
> 
> > company" which has the monopoly on first class mail isn't a 
> > "government" entity anymore...right... Sounds like a 
> > revenue-generating plan, if you ask me. ;-)
> >
> <much O/T>
> 
> That's what freentreprise is about, isn't it?

Perhaps you missed the sentence that mentions that the US Postal Service has a
monopoly on first-class mail (that means full-rate letters, if the term is
unfamiliar). Monopolies are _not_ what free enterprise is about. On the other
hand, I suppose that European PTTs enjoy a similar advantage, and the concept
is not unusual in the world. When Europe becomes a free-enterprise role model
for the US, we can all hoist a beer to celebrate.

BTW, first-class mail is not the largest volume of postal matter, or even
close; FedEx, UPS, et al are not being frozen out of a crucial market.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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