[PLUG] Spam law update

[Russ Johnson]

Ed Sawicki wrote:

>On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 11:05, Dylan Reinhardt wrote:
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>>>>  And that junk mail is subsidized *by* us, it's not a subsidy *to* us.
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>>>How do you figure? The USPS doesn't get one penny of taxes. It's supported 
>>>entirely by postage fees.
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>>>
>
>This is not true. The USPS receives lots of our tax money. Among
>other things, it pays for the bulk mail discounts that non-profit
>organizations enjoy.
>
No, it doesn't. The government has not allocated tax money to the USPS 
since 1972.

Russ