Letters: Yes to snail mail

Re “Free the Postal Service,” Editorial, Oct. 8

I can’t think of a better way to isolate the Appalachian poor than to make them pay FedEx rates. What would Ben Franklin say?

Consider what an individual gets for the price of a postage stamp: the ability to have a handwritten message delivered to and from his front door on a daily basis. Frankly, I think it was one of the worst decisions America made to have the chair Franklin occupied as the nation’s first postmaster general removed from the president’s Cabinet.

In fact, I would much rather this email be brought to you by the post office, with all the federal guarantees of privacy that it would afford, than the way it is now, with the possibility of so many having the ability to read it without my knowledge or consent.

At this moment, we’re taking the benefits of our experiment in democracy for granted, and soon quite likely to our detriment.

Ronald Webster

Long Beach

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