Thank you for contacting me.
Please let me assure you that bill 602P does not exist. Despite the
e-mail
message claiming that the Post Office will charge five cents for every
e-mail
sent, there is currently no legislation pending to tax email.
You can find out more information about this at the Post Office's
website.
Just click on the link "E-mail rumor completely untrue" at
http://www.usps.com.
________________________________________________________________________
_______
From: Bill Davis on Wed, Jun 09, 1999 9:30 AM
To: Petemail
Dear Mr. Stark:
Below is an e-mail currently circulating on the Internet. In essence it
suggests that Congress is working on a bill (Bill602P) which would allow
the US Postal Service to assess a $0.05 surcharge on every Internet
e-mail. I thought it prudent to find out if this is true or not, and if
it is, ask you, my representative, to vote against such an issue.
This smacks of colonialism of sorts, where the phone company is run by
the postal service (as it is in much of the British world, as well as
certain parts of Europe and Asia); it further grates one nerves in that
we would be paying tribute to the postal service when they do not
provide the service of Internet. Given the mess they've made of the US
mail system, I suspect that they would be ill-equipped to deal with the
technology of running the Internet.
In closing, I would like to thank you for your continued service and
look forward to your response.
Respectfully,
Bill Davis, Ph.D.
PO Box 14270
Fremont, CA 94539
[log in to unmask]
he 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
>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 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, V
>> >>>>> >
>> >>>>> >
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>
Ronald K. H. Sitz
5232 E. 2nd St.
Tucson, Arizona
85711-1311
Tel. (520) 795-6891
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> Bill Davis, Ph.D.
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>
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Lamkin
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 12:07 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] Fwd: Charges for E-mail, Fw: Please read & Pass Along
Its a hoax (according to what I've read).
However it would cause a slight problem....Where would we stick the
stamp? My monitor would soon get covered......!!!!
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Phillip E Hinton [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 7:29 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [TN] Fwd: Charges for E-mail, Fw: Please read & Pass
Along
>
>Read the following:
>
>Is it true that we will be charged for every internet message per house
bill
>602 P. that apprarently proposes that the US Government collect a
$0.05 fee
>for each E-mail. Wow!!!
>
>Phil Hinton
> << Message: Fwd: Fw: Please read & Pass Along >>
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