From the Daily Dispatch

Postage Stamp Production Privatized

"The federal government printed its last postage stamps Friday," The Washington Post reports. "The end to 111 years of stamp production by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) came without any public ceremony in the same 14th Street building where many of the nation's most famous stamps have been printed." In the Cato Handbook on Policy, Chapter 34 deals with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and encourages Congress to privatize the mail service: "In recent years the USPS has been under competitive pressures from e-mail, faxes, private package carriers, and services such as Federal Express that are allowed to offer overnight delivery of urgent communications. The Postal Service also has suffered from chronic high labor costs."

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