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by jrumbut 1162 days ago
This is the sense that I meant it in, obviously they are peculiarities in the 18th century institution of the postal service that may or may not be worth copying over.
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> obviously they are peculiarities in the 18th century institution of the postal service

The USPS was created in 1971, which is not the 18th Century.

(Heck, even the monopoly rules that originally applied to the Post Office that now apply to the Postal Service were first established in the 19th, not 18th, century.)