[FWDLK] Fwd: Fw: Free E-Mail

Dear Howard & Bill,
I thought that you would want to read this forwarded mail. I think that we
should all take this seriously. The damn government is not of the people or
for the people. This is just another way of bilking us, so a few power happy
people can pocket some more of our money. Please write your congressmen and
senators.
I hope that all is well with the two of you and that your health is good.
We are enjoying superb weather and I would like nothing better than to leave
this office and bask in the sun. Love, Pat.

To: "Hal Burlingame" <BURLINGAME1@prodigy.net>, "pat" <happyhr777@aol.com>, "Shirley" <SW12023@aol.com>

Subject: Fw: Free E-Mail

From: "sharon" <graphic567@email.msn.com>

Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 19:32:50 -0700


-----Original Message-----
From: Barbara Shafer <jshafer@ctaz.com>
To: Bob Johnson <eiggep2@aol.com>; Daryl Erbe <DErbe65616@aol.com>; Dave
<dcshafer@Yahoo.com>; Donna & Boyce <shadofx@ix.netcom.com>; JeanetteTaylor
[J] <Jeanette8@Juno.com>; Jeanne & Willy <MICHCOTI@aol.com>; Jerry King
<jerry_k@soca.com>; Jim Erbe <j.erbe@Juno.com>; John Arnold
<jbarnold@earthlink.net>; John Hutcherson <jhutch@ctaz.com>; Julie Booth
<booth@ctaz.com>; Katie <khill@mail.co.washoe.nv.us>; Linda
<leopardshark00@Yahoo.com>; Linda Roberts <litho@ctaz.com>; Loretta
Patterson <tom@mohaveaz.com>; Marylu <granylu@ctaz.com>; Pete & Joan
<Pjwellen@aol.com>; POKILY@aol.com <POKILY@aol.com>; Toni & John
<tandj2@earthlink.net>; TSHAFER <TSHAFER@aol.com>; Veronica Shafer
<vrshafer@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 3:26 PM
Subject: Free E-Mail


>> >
>> > >>>>> Subject: Re: Postal e-mail surcharge
>> > >>>>> Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 1:26 PM
>> > >
>> > >>>>> 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.
>
>
>
>

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