Postal Service v. Konan · ¶70

The majority also invokes the presumption of consistent usage.It points to the use of “loss” in the FTCA’s sovereign immunity waiver as meaning “deprivation,” and argues that “loss” as used in the postal exception must take on the same meaning.Ante, at 403.The consistent-usage canon, how- ever, “ ‘readily yields’ to context,” Utility Air Regulatory Group v. EPA, 573 U. S. 302, 320 (2014), and here, comparing the context of the FTCA’s waiver to the context of the postal exception shows that “loss” is being used in two different ways.

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