*** Quoting Christopher Coyne from a message to Charles Hunter ***
CH> AR>Sure.
CH>   >They deliver for companies like Federal Express, AirBourne, UPS etc.
CH> They deliver parcels.  By law they do not deliver "mail".  That 
CH> duty (delivering "mail") is reserved for the U.S. Postal Service which
CH> has a monopoly.  Technically, "overnight letters" by UPS or FED-EX
CH> (who by the way are merging to form FED-UP) are considered parcels.  
CH> Further, those companies cannot deliver to a P.O. Box.
CC> Charles, many documens are delivedred those routes to.  Admit it, it's
CC> mail.
Grin, Chris, read that again.  Perhaps now you understand why many of us have 
no problem with *private* police as a term.  To us, its all the same as long 
as clearly designated.  Federal Express, UPS etc may not be *technically* 
'mail' in the same way that *Private* police is a non-technical term, but its 
an easy to understand one.
                                       xxcarol
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