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Congress
The government argued in its Supreme Court brief, 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. But in his opinion for the court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy took a different approach. He noted that Congress had not immunized the Postal Service against suits from negligent handling of its delivery trucks, a potential liability that poses the same risks of frivolous litigation.