> Matt <lbo at beyondzero.net>...It would be as if the postal service or
> FedEx charged you to receive a package even if you didn't ask for
> it or want it.
>
> Wasn't that how mail was originally when Ben Franklin started it? Am
> I totally wet on this?
>
> - -- Michael Pugliese
You're totally correct.
From the 1805 _Longworth's American Almanack, New York Register, and City Directory for the Thirtieth Year of American Independence_ on page 67: "Letters arriving at the Poft-Office in the mails or by water, are immediately forwarded to their addrefs by the carriers, for which fervice they receive two cents on every letter, in addition to the regular poftage. Letter-Carriers - Charles Betts, Hugh Duncan, James Weft." - no, I don't know why it's "register" but "poftage"...
john mage