Jake,
Presumably the reaction of this "socialist" government will be to nationalize the other shipping companies to create a Post Office monopoly. The next step would be for the Post office to purchase eBay and require every US citizen to purchase at least 1 item per month from a seller at least 1000 miles away. ;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
