Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Related to Business Banking

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As a (relatively) low volume mailer I am always impressed in the way that  
Pitney-Bowes and I think the other company is named Stamp USA (but I am not  
sure) manage to control individual access to postage and postage acquisition in 
 
a system purportedly independently operated by the U.S. Government. 
 
I have often wondered why I cannot just download postage onto my computer,  
and purchase those cheap(er) Avery style generic labels at Staples or some  
similar outlet and print out my own postage without paying those vendors fees  
which my business cannot justify.
 
Now that I have read that the USPIS has actually pursued a case where a  user 
employed Federal Express for "non-urgent" first class type mail this  concern 
becomes just a little more timely. (Personally, from what I've learned  from 
friends and former colleagues there still is no shortage of perverts  issuing 
and purveying child pornography over the Internet  to the them busy  so I 
cannot understand their priority of "protecting the revenues of the Postal  
Service, I don't make that agency's policy)/
 
In that the Postal Service now sells me stamps on a credit card, they  should 
be able to work out something where I can either get something that  
resembles a pre-paid calling card, or just input a credit card number on a  
secure 
website and then print out that inexpensive label to be affixed to a  package 
or 
letter.
 
Nothing excessively serious here since we frequent our post office box in  
the local P.O. and can either buy stamps or just pay for the package in situ,  
just a question of government sponsored (and taxpayer penalized) monopoly or  
oligopoly.
 
Dr. Steve  

1964 Rolls  Royce Silver Cloud III    1975 Pontiac GV Conv.
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1996  Bronco                                  2000 Lincoln Town Car
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+ Audrey's 3x MB's

Dr. Stephen B. Spies, CES,  CFI
Director, Forensic Sciences Laboratory
Explosives Engineering  Technologies

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