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Free the Mail: Ending the Postal Monopoly (Book/ Paperback)

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This comprehensive collection of essays by prominent policy makers, scholars, and analysts provides the most persuasive justification to date of the need to completely overhaul the U.S. Postal Service by privatizing the delivery of mail. Contributors call for an end of the federal postal monopoly and offer prescriptions for privatizing the Postal Service that will benefit all stakeholders, including the 800,000 Postal Service employees.

The contributors do, however, differ on how, given practical political pressures, to dismantle the postal monopoly and abolish the ties between the federal government and the Postal Service. Some propose gradual steps, beginning with third class mail, to achieve those goals. Others would eliminate the postal monopoly and privatize the Postal Service all at once by issuing stock in the Postal Service to all current postal workers and managers.

Among the contributors to this important debate are Postmaster General Anthony Frank, former director of the Office of Management and Budget James C. Miller, III, former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission Daniel Oliver, and former member of President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers Thomas Gale Moore.

This book contains the papers presented at the Cato Institute conference, "Privatization and the Postal Monopoly," on April 7, 1988.

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