A discription of this hoax can be found at
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blemtax2.htm?pid=2733&cob=home.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, June 11, 1999 6:54 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Email
>But, is this true or just someone's idea of a hoax?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: toyman@htcomp.net <toyman@htcomp.net>
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>Date: June 10, 1999 5:48 PM
>Subject: Fwd: Fw: Email
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>>Please forgive me for doing this but as this affects everyone on this list
>I
>>wanted to pass this along (flame me if you must,be merciful,my wife washed
>my
>>asbestos suit and it should have been dry cleaned)Brad
>>
>> >Subject: Email
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>Subject:
>>> >> Fw: Email and the USPS
>>> >> Date:
>>> >> Mon, 31 May 1999 14:16:11 -0500
>>> >> From:
>>> >> gluck@itexas.net (gluck@itexas.net)
>>> >>
>>> >>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 bureaucratic 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
>>> >>1999 Editorial. Don't sit by and watch your freedoms erode away!
>>> >>
>>> >>Send this e-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all your
>>> >>friends and relatives to write to their congressman 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 don't want.
>>> >>
>>> >>Kate Turner
>>> >>Assistant to Richard Stepp, Berger, Stepp and Gorman
>>> >>Attorneys at Law 216 Concorde Street, Vienna, VA
>>> >>
>>> >>Mike
>>> >
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