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John McCann
Riverside,
California
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:13
AM
Subject: [FWDLK] E MAIL WILL BE CHARGED
TO YOUR ACCOUNT===PLEASE READ
Subject: Federal Bill
602P-Mail Charge
Guess the warnings were true. Federal
Bill 602P charges 5-cents per
E-mail sent. It figures! No more free
E-mail! We knew this was coming!!
Bill 602P will permit the
Federal Government to charge a 5-cent charge
on every delivered
E-mail.
Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay
online 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 our use of the
Internet.
Under proposed legislation, the US Postal Service will be
attempting
to bill E-mail users out of "alternative 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 in
turn by the
ISP. Washington, DC lawyer Richard Stepp is working
without pay to
prevent this legislation from becoming law.
The US
Postal Service is claiming lost revenue, due to the proliferation
of
E-mail, 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 person received about 10 pieces of
E-mail per day in
1998, the cost of the typical individual would be an
additional 50
cents a day -- or over $180 per year -- above and
beyond their regular
Internet costs.
Note that this would be money
paid directly to the US Postal Service
for a service they do not even
provide.
The whole point of the Internet is democracy and
noninterference. 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 coast to coast. If the US Postal
Service is
allowed to tinker with E-mail, it will mark the end of the
"free" Internet in
the United States.
Congressional representative,
Tony Schnell (R) has even suggested a
"$20-$40 per month surcharge on all
Internet service" above and beyond
the governments proposed
E-mail charges. Note that most of the major
newspapers have
ignored the story the only exception being the
Washingtonian which called
the idea of E-mail surcharge "a useful
concept who's time has come" (March
6th, 1999 Editorial). Do not sit
by and watch your freedom
erode away!
Send this E-mail to EVERYONE on your list, and tell all
your friends and
relatives to write their congressional representative 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 do not
want.
PLEASE FORWARD!
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