This is all basically what was intended by the establishment of the USPS. The only reason why the internet isn't mentioned in the US constitution is because the

This is all basically what was intended by the establishment of the USPS. The only reason why the internet isn't mentioned in the US constitution is because the technology wasn't available, wasn't even something they could envision. But if it had been they would have included it. If you read the original correspondence about the Postal Clause, the point was not to establish paper mail delivery and postal roads per se, but to establish a system of information conveyance between the federal and state governments and citizens: http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_8_7.html http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/tocs/a1_8_7.html It's always been puzzling to me that people have been so focused on paper mail as the boundaries of the USPS when it was really about information conveyance. Having a narrow mandate to physical mail is sort of holding the US Constitution to an arbitrary limit based on year or era. All of this should be handled in the same way as mail. If people want to build out private internet, fine, but the US government should be building out a public system as well. These issues were all discussed in the 18th century but just with different mediums as a frame of reference.