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The Supreme Court ruled that the Postal Service may be sued by people who trip over packages or other mail that letter carriers have carelessly left in their path. United States Postal Service, No. 04-848, was how broadly to read the exemption. Transmission of mail includes the ultimate act of delivering mail to a postal customer, the government argued in its Supreme Court brief, adding that Congress had intended the postal exception to insulate the Postal Service from lawsuits for its performance of the quintessentially postal function of directly delivering the mail to a postal patron.