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Does the govt provide mailing addresses? Is there a law on the book that puts burden on shipping companies to block sender and receiver based on the provided a

• sschueller 7y ago
  How does the USPS deal withe it? They have the same problem and if they have a solution like an address list they should be sharing it with FedEx etc.
  • cgb223 7y ago
    Doesn’t FedEx own the USPS or vice versa?
    • mcv 7y ago
      Isn't USPS part of the US government?
      • deathanatos 7y ago
        It is. I think what the parent poster is alluding to is, > FedEx provides air transport service to USPS for Priority and Express Mail. Priority Mail and Express Mail are transported from Priority Mail processing centers to the closest FedEx-served airport, where they are handed off to FedEx. FedEx then flies them to the destination airport and hands them back to USPS for transport to the local post office and delivery. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Service) I don't see the relevance, and the GP is right; USPS could share whatever means they're using, it would seem. I'm also curious to know (and did not see in the article) if FedEx is actually liable, or why it is a good idea to have the shipping company, and not the shipping party, be liable?
      • maxlybbert 7y ago
        Officially, the USPS was privatized in the 1970s, except they still need Congressional approval to raise postage rates, close offices, change business hours, or do just about anything you would expect a private company to be able to do. And I don’t believe it’s possible to buy USPS stock. Also, they continue to have their own police force, the private mails act to protect their monopoly in handling letters, a federal requirement to provide service to every address in the country no matter how inconvenient, and laws that make tampering with the mail a federal offense. I think the big difference is that the Postmaster General is no longer a Cabinet member. But the post office makes a big deal about the fact that they’re legally a private corporation.
        • testvox 7y ago
          USPS was never privatized. It was reorganized as an independent agency. > The USPS is often mistaken for a government-owned corporation (e.g., Amtrak) because it operates much like a business. It is, however, an "establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States", (39 U.S.C. § 201) as it is controlled by presidential appointees and the postmaster general. As a government agency, it has many special privileges, including sovereign immunity, eminent domain powers, powers to negotiate postal treaties with foreign nations, and an exclusive legal right to deliver first-class and third-class mail. Indeed, in 2004, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a unanimous decision that the USPS was not a government-owned corporation, and therefore could not be sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act.
          • maxlybbert 7y ago
            Thank you, it looks like I misunderstood the definition of “independent establishment of the executive branch” ( https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100/pub100_036.htm https://about.usps.com/publications/pub100/pub100_036.htm ). I can’t find it now, but in the ‘90s, the post office had a brochure about how wonderful it was that it wasn’t actually a government agency, but apparently now they’re more worried about becoming truly privatized and are playing up their government connections.
        • morpheuskafka 7y ago
• mylonov 7y ago
  Yes, they also provide API https://developer.trade.gov/consolidated-screening-list.html https://developer.trade.gov/consolidated-screening-list.html
  • privong 7y ago
    Thanks for posting that. I find it odd that the URLs returned by the (test?) API[0] are bit.ly shortened. I'm generally not a fan of URL shorteners because I can't easily see where I'm headed, but it also seems that the government should have their own shortener URL if they're going to do that. [0] https://www.export.gov/consolidated_screening_list#/ https://www.export.gov/consolidated_screening_list#/
    • BartBoch 7y ago
      It's strange especially, that the bit.ly allows you to check statistics without any form of restriction: https://bitly.com/1I7ipyR+ https://bitly.com/1I7ipyR+
    • morpheuskafka 7y ago
      They do in fact have their own shortener (https://go.usa.gov/ https://go.usa.gov/)... but after abuse, they changed it to require a login so I'm guessing there was an issue hardcoding someone's login to let the API generate them?
    • amluto 7y ago
      bit.ly, the service that is nominally in Libya, which is, in turn, subject to various sanctions? This is hilarious.