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Posted by Kaegi [24.16.253.154] on Wednesday, December 07, 2011 at 00:56:57 :
In Reply to: One more thing - "media mail" posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Tuesday, December 06, 2011 at 23:05:58 :
you're right it goes back to the founding fathers who argued that getting media (newpapers and mags) into everyones hands was of utmost impotance to a democracy. they saw it that everyone should have the same info to base their voting decisions on. So since the begining of htis country the USPS has been heavily subsidized to make sure that happens. but is that subsidy needed anymore? probably not.
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