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A wide variety of groups have published their opinions on the postal service. Below are some highlights.
Lysander Spooner and his American Mail Letter Company caused the U.S. Postal Service to drop its rates to become more competitive. Of course, they drove him out of business by tightening their legal monopoly on first class mail.
Spooner's pamphlet entitled "Who Caused the Reduction of Postage? Ought He to be Paid?" examines in great detail what caused the decreases in U.S. postage rates in 1845 and 1851.
From Linn's Weekly Stamp News in 1983, 'Father of 3-cent Stamp' Spooner fought Post Office is another look at the effects that he had on postage rates.
In 1981, the American Legion Magazine published this article, Spooner vs. U.S. Postal System.
The Athol (birthplace of Spooner) Daily News published a two-part article on Spooner and the American Mail Letter Company Stamp.
The Philatelic Chautauqua is dedicated to Spooner and his philosophies. It also contains Benjamin Tucker's The Post Office vs. Private Mails and The Ultimate Philatelist about Spooner.
AEI has published two books on postal reform.
Governing the Postal Service is a collection of papers from conferences held in 1994-5 on the law and economics of postal regulation.
Protecting Competition from the Postal Monopoly is a prescription for privatization of the postal service.
Don Feder's article on how the Postal Service Serves as Bad Example from the Christian American.
Americans for Tax Reform's Grover Norquist Blasts Postal Rate Increase as Mail Fraud.
Heritage Foundation President Ed Feulner on Postal Blues.
Senior Fellow Ronald D. Utt's analysis of the Postal Service from the 1997 book, "Balancing America's Budget".
The Fraser Institute submitted their proposal for privatization of Canada Post to the Canada Post Mandate Review.
Citizens Against Government Waste
CAGW's plan to eliminate waste in the USPS as part of it's Prime Cuts, oddly does not call for privatization, only fiscal reforms.
Libertarian Party platform plank on the Postal Service.
Fareed Zakaria examines The Post-Postal World and the decline of the "command state".
Centre for Independent Studies
In the Summer 97/98 issue of Policy, Terry Black and Susan Black discuss the Australian postal service in Postal Services: Public or Private Competition or Monopoly.
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