RE: anyone here about this BS?

From: Bernd D. Ratsch (bernd@texas.net)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 23:14:36 EDT


Oh my god...First it was Internet Phones...now this crap?!?
(Politicians...it figures!)

- Bernd

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: anyone here about this BS?

> 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.



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