X-Message-Number: 17032
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 06:06:56 -0400
From: Deathist Lurker Girl <>
Subject: Post office charging for email?

>
>Message #17026
>From: "john grigg" <>
>Subject: Stop the gov't from taxing e-mail users!!
>Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 23:28:41
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>Natasha Vita-More shared this extremely important plea on the extrolist.
>The US postal service wants to charge email users for "alternative postage
>fees!"  Let's write, email and call our local politicians to stop this.
>
>thanks,
>
>John
>
>
>Does anyone know about this?


Ummm, yeah.  Try visiting this site:

http://new.usps.com/cgi-bin/uspsbv/scripts/content.jsp?D=13643

The converse of "if it sounds too good to be true..." is, "if it sounds too 
awful to be true..."
Generally, such email scares are *not* true.  http://www.snopes2.com/ is a 
great source of information regarding these types of stories.

DLG

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