2. Ibid., p. 14, 390.
3. Ibid., p. 14, 385.
4. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Postal
Service, Semiannual Report to Congress, November
1998, Appendix F, pp. 100101, www.uspsoig.
gov/novcor.pdf.
5. 39 U.S.C. § 403 (1998).
6. William Henderson, "Remarks," Opening Ses-
sion, National Postal Forum, San Antonio, Texas,
May 17, 1999.
7. On April 8, 1999, Chief Administrative Law
Judge Bruce R. Houston ruled that a shelter did
not constitute an address and that the Postal
Service need not rent a P.O. box to Mr. Gomon.
Postal Service docket no. POB 98-505.
8. For a more detailed discussion of unfair com-
petition by the Postal Service, see Frederick W.
Smith, "Competing with the Postal Service," Cato
Policy Report, MarchApril 1999. See also Edward
L. Hudgins, ed., The Last Monopoly (Washington:
Cato Institute, 1996).
9. 39 C.F.R. § 266.4 (1998) at 129.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., at 130.
12. Ibid.
13. Federal Register 64, no. 110 (June 9, 1999):
30,929.
14. U.S. Postal Service, "Postal Service Proposes
Revisions to Private Mailbox Regulations,"
Release no. 52, June 25, 1999.
15. Federal Register of March 25, 1999, p. 14,390.
16. U.S. Postal Service, "Commercial Mail Receiv-
ing Agency," Memo from Patricia M. Gilbert,
USPS vice president for retail, to vice presidents
and area operations district managers, April 29,
1999.
17. Ron Paul, Extension of Remarks, Congress-
ional Record, May 25, 1999, p. E1079.
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