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> Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 8:07 PM
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> >Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 8:19 AM
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> >>Hey, all........... Read this carefully, we are about to get cheated by
> >>the
> >>>Mail Service.
> >>>Talk about thievery, this is the greatest!

> >>> Subject: email

> >>> Subject:     US stamps for e-mails

> >>>     Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay on-line
> 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 noninterference.  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 willmark
> >>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 whose time
> has
> >>> come" (March 6th 1999 Editorial)

> >>> Don't sit by and watch your freedom 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

> >>> URGENT!!!! Pass this along to all your email buddies

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