U.S. court rules against homeless over mail

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has ruled against three homeless men who complained that the U.S. Postal Service did not make sufficient arrangements for them to receive post.


The Seattle men maintained that general delivery services for mail recipients without a physical address limited to the main post office denied them proper access to their letters.


However the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday backed a lower court in finding the postal system had acted properly.


"The Postal Service's limitation of general delivery service is a rational response to the inefficiencies and increased costs that would result from expanding general delivery to branch offices," the three-judge panel found.