There’s nothing more American than going out to the mailbox and getting a stack of letters.

But the feeling of getting mail every day, and sadness you feel when there isn’t any, is no longer a desired constitutional guarantee worth saving. And the fact that it’s an optional “guaranteed” service, has the Republicans salivating. That has the right wing anti-American government zealots clamoring to sell it off. Check out this first quote from Downsizinggovernment.org:

Article 1, Section 8 says: [The Congress shall have the power] to establish Post Offices and Post Roads. 

Thus, the Constitution allows the government to get involved in postal services, but that doesn’t mean that it has to. 

The website is part of the Cato “Institute.” Let’s be honest, these are propagandist think tanks pretending to be institutes. And like all good ideas carried out by the government, their obsession is to vilify and tear down these services. Cato and others want to return to a time when our god-like, all knowing founding fathers drew up the Constitution, and presumably banned future progress, changes or rights that weren’t enumerated. Of course we know that’s crazy, but that doesn’t matter to anti-American forces.

Note: The use of “anti-American” to describe limited government ideologues isn’t name-calling. These are people who want to tear down a government the people, over centuries of progress, have built up. They like that original small government that had only 13 states.  Those states also had vastly smaller populations too. How would that small 13 state government work for over 300 million Americans spanning 50 states?

Which brings me to the latest Postal service ads; they really don’t need to remind normal Americans how important the service is, we really appreciate them. But the minority forces who want to end another reliable government service will get what they want if we don’t push back. And we are:

The first ad, 'Hacked,' reminds viewers that snail mail is safer than virus-prone e-mail, while the second ad, "Face to Face," promotes the value of hand-delivered mail. (Courtesy of the U.S. Postal Service)