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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Idea to help curb unwanted junk mail
Message-ID: <1991Jun13.042624.17037@athena.cs.uga.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 04:26:24 GMT
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In article <1991Jun12.224050.9098@midway.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
>tom jennings:
>) Not only that, the PO makes so much money off it [3rd class junk mail]
>) it basically subsidizes our personal mail.
>
>I don't think so.  I read that the PO is required to set prices so that
>each class of mail breaks even.

Before that requirement was imposed by Congress, first class mail
was actually subsidizing junk mail!  Or so I'm told.







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