Premise: While pre-existing law afforded limited opportunities for postal innovation,2 the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 gave the newly-created United States Postal Service a clear mandate to innovate by developing effective and efficient services adapted to the needs of the Nation's mail users.

Hypothesis: The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 was an unremitting failure that did not have a clear manadate.
Relation: contradiction