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My thought is to have one of the local merchants caravan handle the mail they swing through town every 2 or 3 weeks they know a lot of people and it is something that they can charge for also.
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Perhaps some sort of Army payroll is also being transported along with the mail, requiring additional security precautions. I'm not sure what pay would look like c. 2000, but it's something to consider.
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Article I Section Eight of the US Constitution grants Congress the power to "establish post offices and post roads."
So I agree with the assertion that anyone trying to make the claim of being the "legitimate" government of the US would make use of this to back up their claim. It'd probably cost more than the 42 cent stamp we have now (or is it 44 cents now?), but as others pointed out, TDM kind of put a lot of things to a halt at the 1997 level, when email was not as predominant, so the use of the USPS was still the first choice for many at that time. In the T2K universe, email is off the table, and phones for the most part also, so all that's left is the mail.
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A goverment, Milgov or Civgov would best be served by setting up post offices in a given area that require the locals to register to make use of the postal services. This registration would have the dual purpose of creating a database of people using the service and actually be used to find persons in a displaced population but also recording people living in a area for CivGov or MilGov own use. At that point its as simple as setting up delivery between these offices and getting people to show up there to get there mail. Essentially everyone gets a post office box and the post office becomes a central point in the area.
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The sender would also need to know the recipient is alive, so any lists compiled could then be posted in a central location (e.g. the town square), allowing people to know if their friends / relatives are still alive. Of course, the down side of publishing lists of survivors in that fashion would be if someone wanted to use the information in a nefarious way (New America, to compile lists of 'undesirables', the guy whose ex wife moved to the next town / State etc to get away from him, the stalker who always had a thing for that cute girl that worked as a sports reporter for the local Fox affiliate before the war, etc, etc).
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