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Postal Wins Court Case Brought by USPS

Posted by simoniker on from the high-moral-ground-very-ironic dept.

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing out a press release announcing Postal developer Running With Scissors has been ruled victorious in a court case brought by the United States Postal Service. This seems to be the culmination of a trademark suit which began in 1997 after the release of the original Postal, as the USPS commented "All of us at the Postal Service have a sense of humor, but there is nothing funny about your game 'Postal'", and then tried to prove the Postal Service has a proprietary use of the word 'Postal'. Running With Scissors have fun with this legal resolution: "With unlimited financial resources comes unlimited ego. POSTAL and POSTAL 2 represent everything the USPS isn't: a successful private enterprise that will never have to rely on an irrevocable government contract to keep its pockets perpetually lined with cash."

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  1. successful private enterprise? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    With unlimited financial resources comes unlimited ego. POSTAL and POSTAL 2 represent everything the USPS isn't: a successful private enterprise that will never have to rely on an irrevocable government contract to keep its pockets perpetually lined with cash.

    christ, this is a little over-the-top isn't it? For one thing, I have no idea what this piss-ant company is or what Postal is.. apparently it's a game? I do know what the US postal service is. Mailboxes on every corner, daily mail delivery, decent prices, and decent service (in my experience anyway).

    The USPS' pockets are not "perpetually lined with cash". The USPS is having problems with cash in fact. Congress has been very unwilling to do anything to help them because of the current "private enterprise trumps all" mentality.

    Oh well, gotta do something to draw attention to yourself I guess. PS: be sure to thank the government for the government-enforced copyright monopoly that let's you have that successful private enterprise in the first place.

  2. umm by mrpuffypants · · Score: 2, Interesting

    as anybody who works for the post office can tell you there's not a lot of arrogant pride around there. Our current president wantts to take the USPS and turrn it into a private business, effectively killing the perpetuation of consistent and federally mandated service at regulated prices.

    As for a shitty company that makes even shittier games....well......