Postal Service v. Konan · ¶37

We also disagree with Konan’s, and the dissent’s, rejoinder that the postal exception applies only when the Postal Service lost the mail.See post, at 411–412.Congress could have written the postal exception to apply only when “the Postal Service lost, miscarried, or negligently transmitted” mail. But Congress applied the postal exception to all “claim[s] arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmis- sion” of mail.It described kinds of harms, not kinds of ac- tions by the postal workers.See Dolan, 546 U. S., at 489; contra, post, at 409 (opinion of Sotomayor, J.). We decline to rescue Konan’s claims by inserting the Postal Service as the sentence’s subject and then converting the three nouns into three verbs.Cf. Terry v. United States, 593 U. S. 486, 494 (2021) (“[W]e will not convert nouns to adjectives and vice versa”).

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