The Nation - News from Aug. 28, 1985
James C. Miller III, awaiting confirmation as President Reagan’s budget director, said Congress should revoke the mail monopoly the government postal system has held since the Pony Express days. “Private enterprise will get the mail delivered--just as it did in the Old West,” Miller wrote in an article published in the Cato Journal, a free-market-oriented periodical. Miller, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, is a forceful advocate of government deregulation.
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