Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 Post Offices

• To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

• • ArtI.S8.C7.1 Historical Background on Postal Power
  • ArtI.S8.C7.2 Power to Protect the Mails
  • ArtI.S8.C7.3 Power to Prevent Harmful Use of Postal Facilities
  • ArtI.S8.C7.4 Exclusive Power Over Post Offices as an Adjunct to Other Powers
  • ArtI.S8.C7.5 Restrictions on State Power Over Post Offices

The post office you can see. What’s a post road? The road the postman drives to deliver mail. In the beginning, post offices and post roads were founded by the federal government. Now states do it. Then the federal government stopped using post roads and started using regular roads that the states created.