The Jurisdictional Trap of “Free Home Delivery”
The principal tool used by the United States Government to establish the people as “residents” of the one of its de facto appendages is the benefit of free city or free rural delivery of mail. As was stated recently by Associated Press writer Calvin Woodward, 1863 was the “advent of numbered addresses. Before, people went to the post offices for mail addressed only by name and city [general delivery].” Even more revealing is the following quote from Congressman Clyde Kelly, who served in the early 1930’s as a member of the Post Office and Post Roads Committee in the House of Representatives:
“Free Delivery” is a phrase born of the service policy of the Post Office. It has been growing in meaning until it is clearly established that every American who mails a letter is entitled to have it delivered to the doorway of the addressee.
Under the self-sustaining policy of the early days letter carriers were authorized at the larger post offices and were allowed a fee of 2 cents for each letter, to be paid by the person to whom it was addressed. If he did not have the fee, the letter was returned to the Post Office, to await his call. Such a system could not endure, once the true purpose of the Post Office [to regulate citizens] was realized. On July 1st, 1863, free city delivery service was instituted [as a war measure to keep track of “public enemies” and “suspects”—Northern Democrats]....
Still more eloquent testimony to the service ideal of the Post Office is found in the rural free delivery. It might be argued that it would be more economical to deliver mail in congested cities than to provide storage space [in general delivery] for mail awaiting the calls of patrons [not customers or “residents”], but no such reasoning will apply to smaller towns from which most of the rural routes radiate. There never was any other motive than the public welfare behind the establishment of the rural free delivery service....
The one test in changes in routes must be: “ Will the service be as good or better than formerly?” The test of self-support should not determine the future of this facility which brings benefit to every citizen of the United States, whether he lives in city or country.
It is the highway of service, designed by a democracy with faith for a social institution of vital importance in a people’s nation [Lincoln’s “new nation”]... Every American is the beneficiary of this postal highway and of those leaders [the Lincoln Administration and all its successors] who insisted upon its being built on the service foundation. Its very existence is proof that the true objective of the Post Office is service, not moneymaking, either for profit or exactly balancing expenditures. It is more essential for the protection of the nation [the corporate “United States”] than the Army or Navy; it is the democratic instrument of a democracy [not a republic].
One needs to be able to “read between the lines” when perusing Government admissions. The “benefit” that was offered to the American people by the Post Office under Lincoln in 1863, and now by the United States Postal Service, is that “post offices registered enemy aliens.” (3) It is important to understand that the United States Postal Service is “an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States.” (4) Consequently, maintaining a place of “residence” by receiving mail at an “address” automatically transmutes the recipient of the benefit into as asset of the occupying power.
1. Calvin Woodward, article: “What’s in a Number? Modern Digital Confusion” The Eastside Journal (Bellevue, Washington), 11 March 1997, page A9.
2. Clyde Kelly, United States Postal Policy [New York, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1931], pages 108, 111, 112,118.
3. Gerald Cullinan, The Post Office Department [New York, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publisher], page 81.
4. Title 39, United States Code, section 201.
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