interesting.....Not surprising
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From: Paul Hickman <Paul@Insite-lps.com>
To: "Brent Steffen (E-mail)" <arn357@earthlink.net>, "Curt (E-mail)"
<RHECC@aol.com>, "GEORGE (E-mail)" <DACESH@AOL.COM>, "JAMES (E-mail)"
<JAMERSON32@AOL.COM>, "John McCualey (E-mail)" <JMCCAU3914@AOL.COM>, "Johnny
(E-mail)" <MAVNGOOSE1@AOL.COM>, "Michelle (E-mail)"
<Michelle.R.Arbuckle@Mail.Sprint.Com>, "Paul M (E-mail)"
<contyr14@netnitco.net>, "'PAUL MCKAMEY'" <contyr14@netnitco.net>
Subject: FW: GUESS WHAT?
Date: Fri, Oct 1, 1999, 9:58 AM
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 1999 9:51 AM
> To: Jim Castor; Amy Ortiz; Elizabeth Gilbreath; Paul Hickman; Carol
> Stuples
> Subject: GUESS WHAT?
>
> If you have received it before And aren't interested, fine. If you are
> pass it along to others.
>
> The postal service wants to charge for e-mail. . .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 bill e-mail users out of "alternate
> 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 by the ISP.
> Washington lawyer Richard Stepp is working without pay to prevent this
> legislation from becoming law.
>
> The US Postal Service is claiming that lost revenue due to the
> proliferation of e-mail is costing nearly $230,000,000.00 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 $180.00 per year, above and beyond
> their regular internet costs. Note that this would be money paid directly
> to the U>S> Postal Service or 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 when 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
> City 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, has even suggested "twenty to forty dollars
> per month surcharge on all 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 calls the idea of e-mail surcharge "a useful concept
> who's time has come." March 6th 1999 Editorial)
>
> Don't sit and watch your freedoms erode away! Send this e-mail toll
> Americans on your list and tell your friends and relatives to 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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