Re: It this true?

["April" <adlee@bigfoot.com>]

Amber,

Hoax.  Don't worry about it.  This has gone around the with the Canadian
Post Office (whatever they're called) stamp on it, too.  Funny, seems that
the Canada one could have been the original and somebody edited it for US.

Check out these links if you want.
http://www.globetechnology.com/gam/News/19990429/TWLINK.html

http://www.cfc.dnd.ca/emailtax.html

Keep sending those e-mails!  :)

April
Chattanooga, TN


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob & Amber Roberts <mlaboure@flash.net>


This was sent to me.  Does anyone know if this is true?  If so, it would
severely curtail my involvement with RideCamp.

Amber


>>Internet Legislation
>
>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
>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, VA

Vicki Osendorf
St. Cloud Technical College
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St. Cloud, MN  56303-1240
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