The Rittenhouse Review

A Philadelphia Journal of Politics, Finance, Ethics, and Culture


Wednesday, July 17, 2002  

POSTAL SERVICE PASSES ON TIPS
Seems They Just Want to Deliver the Mail

This just in . . .

The Associated Press reports the U.S. Postal Service is taking a pass on the Bush administration's planned Operation TIPS. (Why does everything have to be an "operation"?)

TIPS, by the way, stands for Terrorism Information and Prevention System, and would be managed primarily by the Justice Department.

"'The Postal Service had been approached by homeland security regarding Operation TIPS; however, it was decided that the Postal Service and its letter carriers would not be participating in the program at this time,' the agency said in a statement issued Wednesday," according to A.P.'s report.

Can they get away with that? Isn't it, um, disloyal? Will this be the ultimate argument in favor of privatizing the Postal Service?

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