[Avodah] Are "Gedolim Stories" Good for Chinuch?

[Arie Folger]

RAM wrote:
> For example: When the post office clerk offered to ship
> the Chofetz Chayim's seforim for free, did he have the
> authority to do so? I doubt it.

Never heard that story. Can you elucidate? If a government office
offers you a service, why should it be prohibited to accept? OK, there
is seineh matoneis yichyeh, but that is a minhag chassidus (or, in our
case, minhag Litkvakious)

> But when the CC purchased an equivalent value of stamps and tore them up, this is portrayed as an amazing feat of tzidkus. Why? Isn't this a basic act which should be expected of *all* of us?

Why? Was there really ever a law that prohibited people from carrying
packages for others either as a favor as as a special courier service?
Non one was  running any parallel post services, so why should tearing
up the stamps be required from all of us?

Please elucidate me,

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