PLEASE PARTICIPATE

[mikep@crt.com]

Where is a link to this legislation?

I could not find any reference to it (Bill 602P) on either the Senate or
House web sites?

Where can this be verified? 


Mike

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> 
> > Subject:  POSTAGE FOR E-MAILS!!!
> >
> > Please read the following carefully if you intend to stay on-line 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
> bill
> > 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 DC
> > 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 noninterference.
> > 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, 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 whose time has come" (March 6th 1999 Editorial)
> >
> > Don't sit by and watch your freedom 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
> > URGENT!!!! Pass this along to all your email buddies
> >