Thread by @msbellows

@EllieRushing Wow. 39 U.S. Code § 101, Postal policy: "(a) The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution... and supported by the people..."
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@EllieRushing "...The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people..."
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@EllieRushing "It shall provide prompt, reliable, + efficient services to patrons in all areas + shall render postal services to all communities. The costs of establishing + maintaining the Postal Service shall not be apportioned to impair the overall value of such service to the people."
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@EllieRushing "(b)The Postal Service shall provide a maximum degree of effective and regular postal services to rural areas, communities, and small towns where post offices are not self-sustaining..."
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@EllieRushing "... No small post office shall be closed solely for operating at a deficit, it being the specific intent of the Congress that effective postal services be insured to residents of both urban and rural communities."

Injunction time?
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