Legal Opinion
Air Courier Conference of America v. American Postal Workers Union
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 26, 1991No. 89-1416PublishedCited by 331 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
This case requires us to decide whether postal employees are within the “zone of interests” of the group of statutes known as the Private Express Statutes (PES), so that they may challenge the action of the United States Postal Service in suspending the operation of the PES with respect to a practice of private courier services called “international remailing.” We hold that they are not.
Since its establishment, the United States Postal Service has exercised a monopoly over the carriage of letters in and from the United States. The postal monopoly is codified in the PES, 18 U. S. C.…
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