A post office that reaches every address — no matter how remote — and a scale, meter, or gauge that means the same everywhere and can't be rigged against you. This statute protects both from being starved, sold off, or quietly gamed. The reach of the mail and the honesty of a measurement are public trusts.
The postal service could be loaded with artificial debts, its rural routes cut, and its collapse used as an argument to sell it off.Check it
Remote, rural, tribal, and poor communities were the first to lose service — the places least profitable to reach, and least able to fight back.Check it
Weights, measures, and meters were policed unevenly, and the bodies that set the standards could be captured by the very industries they measured.Check it
A rigged pump, a shorted scale, a padded meter, a deceptive "quantity" on a label — the small daily thefts that add up across millions of transactions.Check it
A public post must deliver to every address — however remote or unprofitable — at uniform rates, and may not be starved or sold into abandoning that duty.
Rural, remote, tribal, and low-income service can't be cut below what profitable areas get. The mail is public infrastructure, funded to serve.
One national system of weights, measures, time, and value — set by science, insulated from capture by the industries it governs, and free for everyone to see.
Rigging, shorting, or concealing the true measure of what you sell or charge for is prohibited. A measurement is a promise, and it must be honest.
Delivery to remote and unprofitable places could be cut, and rates could climb for the hardest-to-reach — the rural, tribal, and low-income communities first.Check it
The post must deliver to and collect from every address in the country and its territories, at uniform rates that don't rise with the cost of reaching a place. Service to poorer areas can't fall below service to profitable ones.
The service could be deliberately underfunded or saddled with artificial financial burdens, so its engineered decline could be sold as proof it should be privatized.Check it
It may not be starved of funds or burdened with artificial obligations to manufacture failure, and may not be sold or privatized in a way that abandons universal service. Its mandate is service, and it's funded to fulfill it.
Rates could be set to chase revenue over mission, and the vast public reach of the postal network went unused for people the banks won't serve.Check it
Rates stay affordable and transparent; efficiency can never override universal service. The network can carry other essential public services — including basic banking for the unbanked — because its reach is a public asset.
The record of who writes to whom could be compiled and watched, and the protection of sealed mail didn't clearly follow correspondence as it moved online.Check it
Sealed mail can't be opened or its contents disclosed without a warrant on probable cause. Records of who corresponds with whom can't be compiled to monitor lawful association — and that principle extends to private communication beyond paper mail.
Standards bodies could be captured by the industries they measured, and rigged scales, pumps, meters, and deceptive labels skimmed from people one transaction at a time.Check it
One national system of weights, measures, time, and value — set by the best science, insulated from industry capture, published free. Falsifying, rigging, or concealing the true measure of what you sell or charge for is prohibited.
This is the plain-language version. The binding text is CS-36, which implements Article Three, Section 7 of the Constitution.
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