New electronic ventures also will give mail users new alternatives to first-class mail. There's widespread approval of the idea already. Since the most powerful supporters of the status quo are the postal unions, the political problems of repealing the Private Express Statutes are formidable. But with enough competition from electronic messaging and other delivery services, the Private Express Statutes could simply become irrelevant. It's time something like this happened.
Mail is far too important to leave in the hands of a government monopoly.
Let anybody carry it, and let the market decide who does it best. That seemed like a radical proposal in 1962. With the help of free-market advocates, technical advances, and the failings of the United States Postal Service, it is becoming a reality. He was a public relations representative at the time of his retirement and at the time of the original publication, he was a writer-consultant in Toledo, Ohio. The Freeman, October 1962.