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Subject: email surcharge bill
From: REasterby@aol.com
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 10:26:30 EDT
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FYI to ALL!!!!

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Subject: Fw: FW: PLEASE READ ME
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> From: CLAUDINE_GOVIER@HP-Sonoma-om2.om.hp.com
> To: cgovier@sonic.net; darbogast@excite.com;
GEISSLER_CAROL/HP-LakeStevens_om2@boi164.boi.hp.com;
JOHNS_LUCIE/HP-LakeStevens_om2@boi164.boi.hp.com; klemon0320@aol.com
> Subject: FW: FW: PLEASE READ ME
> Date: Thursday, June 03, 1999 8:30 AM
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I got this from a reliable source, so maybe we should pay attention.
> 
> Claudine
> 
> 
> 
> Subject: FW: PLEASE READ ME
> 
> This should scare you.  First, the IRS can't stay out of our pocket (a
hefty 
> portion of your taxes go solely to the support of the IRS).  Now the
Postal 
> Service wants us to pay them just to exist.  Is there a surcharge for
using 
> FedEx, UPS, etc.?  Are they asking for legislation to secure the
existence of a 
> monopoly?  Where are the anti-trust laws?  Or, is it just that they are
not 
> intended to apply to government(?) services(?)?
> 
> Arthur C. Hack
> 707-577-5325 
> 
> Subject: PLEASE READ ME
> 
> 
>      
> Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay online and 
> continue using email:
>      
> 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 email users out of "alternate postage fees". Bill 602P will permit 
> the Federal Govt to charge a 5 cent surcharge on every email 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 email 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 email 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
> 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 email, who knows where it will end.
>      
> You are already paying an exorbitant price for snail mail because of 
> bureacratic efficiency. 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 email, 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 all 
> Internet service" above and beyond the government's proposed email 
> charges.
>      
> Note that most of the major newspapers have ignored the story, the only 
> exception being the Washingtonian which called the idea of email
> surcharge "a useful concept who's time has come" March 6th 1999
Editorial) Don't
> sit by and watch your freedoms erode away!
>      
> Send this email to all Americans on your list and tell your friends and 
> relatives to write to their congressman and say "No!" to Bill 602P.
>      
> Kate Turner Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
Attorneys
> at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, Va.
> 
> 

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