Postal Service v. Konan · ¶54

By comparison, Congress did not paint with as broad of a brush in designing the postal exception.Like it had for these other agencies and activities, Congress could have granted immunity for all “claims arising from the mail activi- ties of the Postal Service.”Instead, Congress identified certain “misconduct for which the Government was not as- suming financial responsibility—namely, ‘the loss, miscar- riage, or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter.’ ” Kosak, 465 U. S., at 855.By using “specificity” over “gener- ality,” it follows that Congress intended for this exception “to be less encompassing” than the coverage provided by the broader exceptions, and for the Government to “assum[e] financial responsibility” for certain classes of “misconduct” related to postal activities.Ibid.

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