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From: rgale@man.UUCP (Ryan Gale)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: copyrights to letters (registered mail)
Message-ID: <128@man.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Feb-86 02:11:52 EST
Article-I.D.: man.128
Posted: Mon Feb 17 02:11:52 1986
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Summary: Registered Mail cannot prove contents

In article <739@ttrdc.UUCP>, levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
> But can someone tell me--if you use Registered Mail to send an item to
> SOMEONE ELSE, how do you go about proving the CONTENTS of the mailing,
> should the recipient conveniently "lose" the mailing? 

You can't.  It is for this reason that the IRS disallows the use of
Registered or Certified Mail as proof that you filed on time -- you
can prove that you mailed *something*, but cannot prove that what
you mailed was your tax return.

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Ryan Gale 
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