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Bill: Postal Service Regulation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Progressive Liberal Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: July 2576
Description[?]:
| An Act to establish stringent regulations on the workings of the private post services. Under this Act, only private companies may provide postal services, but the Federal Government shall guarantee its nationwide availability, even temporarily assuming delivery of mail to a region in which no company wants to work. In order to be allowed to provide postal services, companies need to comply with the following REGULATIONS: 1. Confidentiality of communications is an essential right enshrined in our Constitution, and thus shall never be violated, except through a court order related to a criminal process and only under the cases set in the law. 2. Even when confidentiality is to be violated through the required judicial procedures, private companies shall play no role in such violation. The judge himself, or a public attorney appointed by him for the particular case, shall proceed to open the letters. In no case shall a postal service employee be able to access the contents of any communication. 3. Mail service shall be provided under "reasonable and non-discriminatory terms" (RAND). In particular, there can be no fare or delivery time differences based on the identity of the sender or the receiver, other than their relative geographic location and the particularities of the envelope (size, weight, etc.) 4. Companies will be subject to a maximum delivery time that shall be set by the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and will be between five and fourteen days. If a certain mail arrives late, the citizen will have the right to have the fare reimbursed. If a company fails to provide the service in the terms stated above, either the citizens or the government (national or reginal) can sue it, and if the court rules in their favor, the company can be punished with a temporary and regional removal of their postal license. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning the post office
Old value:: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are unregulated.
Current: There is a nationalised post office agency. Private post offices are allowed to exist but the services provided by them are regulated.
Proposed: Only private post agencies exist, and the services they provide are regulated.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:32:12, May 12, 2008 CET | From |  Progressive Liberal Party | To | Debating the Postal Service Regulation Act |
| Message | We the Progressive Liberals propose this bill in order to regulate the jungle-like postal service. The reforms we want to enact preserve the monopoly of the private sector, but establishes regulations mainly regarding essential rights of the Cildanian citizens. In particular, they establish more stringent rules for the safeguard of the confidentiality, barring private employees from opening letters, even under a court order. Also, they formally forbid any kind of discrimination, which is thankfully currently nonexistent, and establishes a delivery time guarantee, with systems for the citizens to claim their rights. |
| Date | 19:36:37, May 14, 2008 CET | From | Communist Party (marxist-deleonist) | To | Debating the Postal Service Regulation Act |
| Message | Althought we want the post agency to be public owned, this is better then nothing. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 94 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 58 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 10 |
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