Eric Bender wrote:
>
> At 12:58 PM 4/20/1999 -0300, Gary Nolan wrote:
> >I do no how true this is but this is what i
> > received today. (message below)
>
> In a front page story, the Montreal Gazette reports this
> morning that this email tax - which falls within the
> realm of the believable for anyone familiar with the
> restrictive practices of Canada Post - is in fact an
> almost-instant urban legend.
>
> There is no Bill 602P under consideration by Parliament.
> There is no backbencher named Tony Schnell.
> There is no lawyer named Richard Stepp.
>
> What makes this a certain fabrication is that no lawyer
> would ever work without pay.

8<snip>8

However, what would make it believable (in the US) is
that the US Postal Service HAS gone after alternate
carriers.  6-8 years ago, the Post Office decided that
they were losing too much business to Fedex (iirc), and
that people were sending things overnight which did not
really need to go over night, and that people were
spending $8 - $10 with Fedex instead of $0.28 - $2.50
with the Post Office just because they wanted their
letters to actually be delivered, not because they had
to be there the next day.  As silly as it sounds,
the Post Office not only filed the charges, but
actually won (out of court, iirc) something on the
order of $500,000 from 3 large businesses, and put a
small dent in Fedex's business.

So, would the US post go after ISPs you bet your
sweet bippy.  I just hope that the idea eludes them
for a while yet.

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