People v. Shapiro

At issue is the constitutionality of the United States Postal Service’s detention and investigation of a suspicious package, and of the search warrants and arrests which ensued. The Framers of the United States Constitution believed a uniform, safe and secure mail delivery system so important to our democracy that the United '

States Constitution requires Congress to establish a post office. U.S. Const., art. I, § 8, cl. 7. Indeed, at the inception of our Republic mail delivery was deemed so essential that some of those who unlawfully interfered with it were sentenced to death.1 But what of…