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Boxerfan

(2,533 posts)
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 09:01 PM Aug 2020

Restraint of free trade is a criminal offence

And millions of small business's rely on the US postal service to fulfill customers orders.

How is this not a massive case of restraint of free trade? And the US Postal system itself is a victim .

But to fix that it would take Republicans giving a shit & they would shoot themselves in the balls to please the orange Anus lip monster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restraint_of_trade

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Restraint of free trade is a criminal offence (Original Post) Boxerfan Aug 2020 OP
Maybe. elleng Aug 2020 #1
Interfering with mail delivery is a crime. And so is the conspiracy to commit. bullimiami Aug 2020 #2
What you said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thirties Child Aug 2020 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Aug 2020 #3

elleng

(131,054 posts)
1. Maybe.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 09:03 PM
Aug 2020

'a common law doctrine relating to the enforceability of contractual restrictions on freedom to conduct business. It is a precursor of modern competition law. In an old leading case of Mitchel v Reynolds (1711) Lord Smith LC said,[1]

it is the privilege of a trader in a free country, in all matters not contrary to law, to regulate his own mode of carrying it on according to his own discretion and choice. If the law has regulated or restrained his mode of doing this, the law must be obeyed. But no power short of the general law ought to restrain his free discretion.'

bullimiami

(13,101 posts)
2. Interfering with mail delivery is a crime. And so is the conspiracy to commit.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 09:05 PM
Aug 2020

Tens of millions of counts of said crimes.

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