RE: Fw: Proposed Bill 602P

["Donald W. Lewis" <don@NATSO.com>]

Poster: "Donald W. Lewis" <don@NATSO.com>

The following is a statement  from the Postal Service.

http://www.usps.gov/news/press/99/99045new.htm
<http://www.usps.gov/news/press/99/99045new.htm> 


Donald MacGregor

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Lisa Brennan-Webb [mailto:lisarowan@yahoo.com]
		Sent:	Monday, June 14, 1999 2:01 PM
		To:	atlantia@atlantia.sca.org
		Subject:	Fwd: Fw:  Proposed Bill 602P


		Poster: Lisa Brennan-Webb <lisarowan@yahoo.com>

		Good gentles, I apologize for the OOP nature of this
		post- if such offends you, pray delete now...
		This posting alarmed me as I fear it would endanger
		the very list I post it upon, as well as all of our
		other e-communications, and hopefully we can band
		together to do something about this...Elspeth of
		Harilow, Barony of Marinus                            


		> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:18:03 -0500
		> Subject: Fw:  Proposed Bill 602P
		> 
		> 
		> > ---------------------
		> > > << Dear Internet Subscriber:
		> > >  > >
		> > >  > >    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.
		> > >  >  >>
		> > >
		> > >
		> > > -----------------
		> > > Forwarded Message:
		> > >
		> 
		> 
		> 
		> 
		> 
		> 

	
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