All Posts Tagged With: "postal monopoly"
Lysander Spooner: American Anarchist
It was in the early 1970s that I first learned of Lysander Spooner’s ideas. The six volumes of his Collected Works, which were published in 1971 and which I purchased soon thereafter, played an important part in my intellectual development as a voluntaryist. I was the person who in 1976 unearthed Spooner’s essay “Vices Are [...]
24Aug2011 | Carl Watner | 7 comments | ContinuedForked-Tongued Washington Government
The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 was the first federal statute to limit cartels and monopolies and still forms the basis for most antitrust litigation by the Department of Justice. The Act contains two important provisions. Section 1 outlaws contracts and conspiracies in restraint of trade. Section 2 prohibits monopolization and attempts to monopolize. Most [...]
24Aug2011 | Walter E. Williams | 3 comments | ContinuedPostal Monopoly: Playing by Different Rules
Once again the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is seeking to use its monopoly power to defy the economic law of demand. On April 8 the USPS requested an increase in the first-class letter rate from 37 to 39 cents, a 5.4 percent jump. Between 2000 and 2004, the price of first-class postage increased 12.1 percent, [...]
1Jul2005 | Robert Carreira | 1 comment | ContinuedTime for the Mail Monopoly to Go
Scott Esposito is a recent graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, earning degrees in economics and political science. In 1775 the Continental Congress named Benjamin Franklin head of the newly created federal post office with the hopes that it would help bind together the emergent confederation.1 Although the confederation failed, the post office didn’t, [...]
1Feb2002 | Scott Esposito | 10 comments | ContinuedMail at the Millennium: Will the Postal Service Go Private? Edited by Edward L. Hudgins
The copy of Ideas on Liberty you’re reading was most likely delivered to you by an employee of the United States Postal Service (USPS). If there were alternatives open to FEE in the distribution of its magazine, it would certainly explore them to see if costs could be reduced—but there are no alternatives. Thanks to [...]
1Nov2001 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedLetting Competition Reign
Doug Bandow, a nationally syndicated columnist, is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the author and editor of several books. Postage rates rose at the beginning of the year. It costs another penny for regular first class. And an extra 20 cents to send a letter overseas. Bulk-rate mailing is also a lot [...]
1Aug2001 | Doug Bandow | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Case for Economic Freedom
Dr. Benjamin A. Rogge (1920-1980) was dean and professor of economics at Wabash College in Indiana and long a trustee of FEE. This lecture, printed in The Freeman in 1963, was delivered at several FEE seminars and on other occasions. It sets forth the Rogge ideal of the unmixed free economy. My economic philosophy is [...]
1Mar1997 | Benjamin A. Rogge | 0 comments | Continued-
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