On Mail Delivery
 

" Once government has had a monopoly of a creative activity such, for
instance, as the delivery of the mails, most individuals will believe that
the mails could not be efficiently delivered by men acting freely. And here
is the reason: Each one acknowledges that he himself doesn't know how to do
all the things incident to mail delivery. He also recognizes that no other
individual could do it.

These assumptions are correct. No individual possesses enough know-how to
perform a nation's mail delivery any more than any individual possesses
enough know-how to make a pencil. Now, in the absence of faith in free
people - in the unawareness that millions of tiny know-hows would naturally
and miraculously form and cooperate to satisfy this necessity - the
individual cannot help but reach the erroneous conclusion that mail can be
delivered only by governmental "masterminding." "

I, Pencil. By Leonard E. Read. First published in Dec. 1958

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Victor Manta, PWO

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On Mail Delivery
 

On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:15:12 -0500, "Victor Manta"
sharpened a crayon and wrote:

" Once government has had a monopoly of a creative activity such, for
instance, as the delivery of the mails, most individuals will believe that
the mails could not be efficiently delivered by men acting freely. And here
is the reason: Each one acknowledges that he himself doesn't know how to do
all the things incident to mail delivery. He also recognizes that no other
individual could do it.

These assumptions are correct. No individual possesses enough know-how to
perform a nation's mail delivery any more than any individual possesses
enough know-how to make a pencil. Now, in the absence of faith in free
people - in the unawareness that millions of tiny know-hows would naturally
and miraculously form and cooperate to satisfy this necessity - the
individual cannot help but reach the erroneous conclusion that mail can be
delivered only by governmental "masterminding." "

I, Pencil. By Leonard E. Read. First published in Dec. 1958

Quite so, the bureaucrats would have it thatthey, and they alone, are
capable of managing affairs of the citizens.

One can see an even more invasive mode in the myriad of tiny little
laws designed to micro-control everyone to fit a single 'mould'.

On Mail Delivery
 

On Mail Delivery and government monopoly

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Trucial states, small sheikdoms like Ajman, Fujeira, Sharjah and Um-al-Qiwain, issued huge amounts of postage stamps. The postal authorities had contracted with private printing companies who printed huge quantities far in excess of those countries postal needs. The government officials claimed that the printers had continued to issue unauthorized stamps and had sold them to various stamp dealers all over the world. The dealers sold them to eager collectors at a nice margin.

So by 1977 the Stanley Gibbons catalog had a warning for those countries stamps issued between 1967 - 1972: These stamps have either been issued in excess of postal needs or have not been available to the public in reasonable quantities at face value.

I'm not arguing against Leonard E. Read's statement - I'm just looking at various scenarios.

my 2 c
Ray