Postal Service v. Konan · ¶27

Absent a reason to think otherwise, we interpret statutory terms according to the ordinary meanings they had when they were enacted.Wisconsin Central Ltd. v. United States, 585 U. S. 274, 277 (2018).When Congress enacted the FTCA in 1946, the “miscarriage” of mail ordinarily in- cluded any failure of mail to properly arrive at its intended destination.Konan would limit “miscarriage” to uninten- tional failures or failures where the mail went to the wrong address.Neither limitation is well founded.

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