Postal Service v. Konan · ¶83

For all these reasons, a faithful interpretation of the postal exception leads to the conclusion that intentional misconduct is excluded from its reach.Congress used “overlapping” terms in the exception, ante, at 406, but Congress intended for that overlap to keep claims alleging negligence, not inten- tional wrongdoing, out of court.This reading gives mean- ing to Congress’s choice to put “negligent” before “transmis- sion” and to use the words “miscarriage” and “loss” in their common understanding, and it respects the “specificity” Con- gress used in the postal exception as compared to the broadly worded exceptions Congress used for other agencies. Kosak, 465 U. S., at 855.

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