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Re: Mail Off topic! is this true?

They can legally charge the first class letter rate now?  Only the United
States Postal Service
can deliver "MAIL" whether it is in paper form or electronic form and for
this service 
you must pay 1st class Postage.  If you send a letter - electronically or
otherwise you technically owe the postage.  Suppose you accept a package
for your neighbor and you 
write him/her a note to let them know you have their package.  If you
personnally deliver the note to their house tape it to the front door and
leave -- you have broken several laws by 
depriving the Usps of their 1st class postage.  You have also violated
the "private delivery of mail" statutes.  What a mess??
  

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:36:41 -0500 "Al Anderson" <killiman at iquest_net>
writes:
> Subject: Federal Bill 602p
> > > >
> > > >     Guess the warnings were true.   Federal Bill 602P
> > > >      5-cents per E-mail sent.
> > > >     It figures!   No more free E-mail!   We knew this was
> > > >     coming!!  Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government
> > > >     to charge a 5-cent charge on every delivered E-mail.
> > > >     Please read the following carefully if you intend to
> > > >     stay online 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 our use of
> > > >     the Internet.
> > > >
> > > >     Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will
> > > >     be attempting to bill E-mail users out of "alternative
> > > >     postage fees."
> > > >
> > > >     Bill 602P will permit the Federal Government 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 DC lawyer Richard Stepp is working without
> > > >     pay to prevent this legislation from becoming law. The
> > > >     US Postal Service is claiming 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 person received about 10 pieces of
> > > >     E-mail per day in 1998, the cost of the typical
> > > >     individual would be an additional 50 cents a day - or
> > > >     over $180 per year-above and beyond their regular
> > > >     Internet costs.
> > > >
> > > >     Note that this would be money paid directly to the US
> > > >     Postal Service for a service they do not even provide.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >     The whole point of the Internet is democracy and
> > > >     noninterference. 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 coast to coast.   If the US
> > > >     Postal Service is allowed to tinker with E-mail, it
> > > >     will mark the end of the "free" Internet in the United
> > > >     States.
> > > >
> > > >     Congressional representative, Tony Schnell (r) has
> > > >     even suggested a "$20-$40 per month surcharge on all
> > > >     Internet service" above and beyond the governments
> > > >     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 Editorial).  Do not sit by and
> > > >     watch your freedom erode away!
> > > >
> > > >     Send this E-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell
> > > >     all your friends and relatives to write their
> > > >     congressional representative and say "NO" to Bill
> > > >     602P.
> > > >
> > > >     It will only take a few moments of your time and could
> > > >     very well be instrumental in killing a bill we do not
> > > >     want.
> > > >
> > > >     PLEASE FORWARD!
> 
> Al Anderson
> killiman at iquest_net
> breed your fish today because man's 
> breeding is killing the wild supply.
> 
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