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Date: Thursday, September 30, 1999 7:33 PM
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>Charles E. Carman <carm1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 8:00 PM
>Subject: Note
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>>Passing this along.....
>><<
>> Can you believe this !
>>
>> Subject: US stamps for e-mails
>>
>> Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay on-line
>> and continue using e-mail:
>>
>> The last few months have revealed an alarming trend in the
>> Government of the United States attempting to quietly push
>> through legislation that will affect your use of the Internet.
>>
>> Under proposed legislation the U.S. Postal Service will be
>> attempting to bilk e-mail users out of "alternate postage fees".
>> Bill 602P will permit the Federal govt. to charge a 5 cent
>> surcharge on every e-mail delivered, by billing Internet
>> Service Providers at source. The consumer would then
>> be billed in turn by the ISP. Washington, D.C., lawyer
>> Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent this
>> legislation from becoming law. The U.S. Postal Service
>> is claiming that lost revenue due to the proliferation of
>> e-mail is costing nearly $230,000,000 in revenue per
>> year. You may have noticed their recent ad campaign "There
>> is nothing like a letter". Since the average citizen received
>> about 10 pieces of e-mail per day in 1998, the cost to the
>> typical individual would be an additional 50 cents per day,
>> or over $180 dollars per year, above and beyond their regular
>> Internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly to=20
>> the U.S. Postal Service for a service they do not even provide.
>>
>> The whole point of the Internet is democracy and
>> non-interference. If the federal government is permitted to
>> tamper with our liberties by adding a surcharge to e-mail,
>> who knows where it will end. You are already paying an
>> exorbitant price for snail mail because of bureaucratic
>> inefficiency. It currently takes up to 6 days for a letter to
>> be delivered from New York to Buffalo. If the U.S. Postal
>> Service is allowed to tinker with e-mail, it will mark the end
>> of the "free" Internet in the United States. One congressman,
>> Tony Schnell (R) has even suggested a "twenty to forty dollar
>> per month surcharge on alI Internet service" above and beyond
>> the government's proposed e-mail charges. Note that most of
>> the major newspapers have ignored the story, the only exception
>> being the Washingtonian which called the idea of e-mail surcharge
>> "a useful concept who's time has come" (March 6th 1999=20
>> Editorial).
>> Don't sit by and watch your freedom erode away!
>>
>> Send this e-mail to all Americans on your list and tell your
>> friends and relatives to write to their congressman and=20
>> say "No!" to Bill 602P.
>>
>> Kate Turner
>> Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
>> Attorneys at Law
>> 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, Va.
>>
>> URGENT!!!! Pass this along to all your e-mail buddies
>> >>
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