The poor sap made an off-hand remark from the dais during public comment on the Council's plan to send a letter to the USPS asking them to delay the sale of our historic downtown post office. He was, in effect, making idle chit-chat, not a real proposal, and he was apparently drawing on some half-remembered pop article about fighting spam. A local "news" web site made hay out of it, trolling for clicks.
The postal service would be much better off financially if Congress would take off the handcuffs. On the one hand, they cut off tax-payer funding and tell it to fund itself (in the same way a for-profit company would), but it micromanages it in a way that it couldn't/doesn't (and shouldn't) micromanage its private competitors, like UPS and Fedex.
If they actually provided something for the tax - email servers, or encryption services, or just enforcing the same privacy laws on emails as on physical mail - this bill might get somewhere.
Why doesn't anyone propose repealing the 2006 law?
I see this as one of the many signs that government is going to be getting more and more involved in messing up the internet. And we all thought the eternal septemeber was bad.. just you wait.