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Re:If It Prints, It Ships: 3D Printing and the Postal Servi... by delbel on Friday July 25, 2014 @12:26AM (#8083746)
Via government mandate/fiat.
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Re:If It Prints, It Ships: 3D Printing and the Postal Servi... by dragonwriter on Friday July 25, 2014 @01:06AM (#8083862)
Except that that's false, as the USPS doesn't have any government mandated monopoly on package delivery (it has a monopoly on letters only, and even that has exceptions.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Express_Statutes

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Re:If It Prints, It Ships: 3D Printing and the Postal Servi... by yzzxy on Friday July 25, 2014 @12:58AM (#8083839)
That's a process by which they could receive a monopoly which they by no means hold. Or was FedEx just a fake company invented for Cast Away?
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