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Monopoly on snail mail. (Correction Please).
ITEM: President Bush, reported CBS News on December 11th, "signed an order creating a commission to look into overhauling and perhaps even privatizing the U.s. postal system.... American Postal Workers Union president Bill Burrus told CBS Radio News he already knows what it will say.... 'It's a done deal. This is an opportunity to achieve privatization of the U.S. Mail...,' Burrus said."
CORRECTION: Paranoid union suspicions notwithstanding, there is no indication of an administration plot to do the right thing. Indeed, Treasury Undersecretary Peter Fisher explicitly gave assurances about the commission's aim: "This is not a stealth project to privatize the Postal Service."
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