# Bill 602P
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 26, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846 "2000-07-26T00:18:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846/1 "2000-07-26T00:18:42Z")
I received an email today from a friend of mine about “Bill 602P.” This is the email currently circulating about the USPS charging 5 cents per email.
For those of you who didn’t already know, this is a hoax. Below are some links you may find useful to prove this point beyond rebuttal, IMHO.
[http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/postage.html](http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/postage.html) [http://www.flora.org/flora.mai-not/10943](http://www.flora.org/flora.mai-not/10943)
[http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19990521/news/current/email.htx?source=htx/http2\_mw](http://cbs.marketwatch.com/archive/19990521/news/current/email.htx?source=htx/http2_mw)
[http://ask.com/main/askjeeves.asp?ask="602P"&origin=0&site\_name=Jeeves&metasearch=yes&ads=](http://ask.com/main/askjeeves.asp?ask=%22602P%22&origin=0&site_name=Jeeves&metasearch=yes&ads=)
As you can clearly see by clicking on the links (I refuse to copy the articles into this message) this is a complete and utter hoax.
Anyone else receive this type of email?
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### Author:  [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846/2 "2000-07-26T00:21:26Z")
nope.
another pointless response from me today. Why do I do it? I just don’t fucking know.
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### Author:  [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846/3 "2000-07-26T01:11:09Z")
I believe it’s a cry for help, oldscratch.
As to the OP, my friends know me better than to send me those things anymore. 😃
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### Author:  [@Myrr21](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrr21)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846/4 "2000-07-26T01:16:07Z")
Yeah, I generally prefer removing the spleen of whoever sends me one of those even after being warned 🙂
Of course, my ex-GF’s mother still forwards these things to me. I don’t understand it; it’s been over a year now, and she knew we broke up right away. And she never liked me anyway. Wait a minute, I \* do \* understand it.
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### Author:  [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846/5 "2000-07-26T05:37:20Z")
Oh, yeah. I got this email from an uncle who believes every UL that crosses his email address.
I sent the idiot links to to the US Senate and House and told him to find the congressman sponsoring the bill and he STILL wouldn’t believe it was a hoax.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2000, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bill-602p/26846/6 "2000-07-26T11:38:38Z")
There’s another version of this floating around that says it’s a Canadian bill.