[aspenmayer]

I think the post office could have been this, but the political will wasn't there. Separation of banking from taxation and the postal system from both of those for separation of concerns for compartmentalization was probably at the forefront of the minds of the founders, since Washington himself had run a spy network and been personally hunted by soldiers and mercenaries on their own turf during the revolution, so I can't say these aren't legitimate concerns, but they haven't exactly aged well. At the time of the revolution and directly after the union, there was no federal income tax anyway.

[2Gkashmiri]

> I think the post office could have been this

Explain. Id like to.know

[aspenmayer]

I was responding to this aspect:

> it bugged me for a long time why a person can't store facts about themselves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_savings_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...

Hypothetically, you could have sent 0.01 to a friend and use the memo field as a poor man's postcard with free postage, provided in-system transactions were free, which they arguably ought to be, but likely never were or would be in actuality.