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To: Ilaine who wrote (103)	10/26/2001 4:00:00 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 827

CB, your mail is essential but the vast bulk of mail is non-essential. They should immediately stop all non-essential mail so they can concentrate on safe handling of the essential mail. And for the time-being they should abolish the use of anonymous mailboxes. Go into the the post office, show your ID, and mail your bills.

To: Ilaine who wrote (103)	10/26/2001 4:47:25 PM
From: Jill	Respond to of 827

Au contraire, did you read my post? I disagreed w/ him about one thing and that was 3 mos delay. I agree wholeheartedly about stopping nonessential mail until we get the irradiating machines in and find out how many post offices are contaminated. That way clean post offices can handle the overflow. Probably most of your clients can do electronic billing and paying, no? You're a lawyer if I recall so probably your clients are knowledgeable and solvent.

To: Ilaine who wrote (103)	10/26/2001 5:41:57 PM
From: RocketMan	Respond to of 827

As a small business owner, you should be able to handle things as you normally do. I don't know if you use a franking machine or not, but it doesn't matter. If the postman comes to your place of business to pick up your outgoing mail, you just give it to him in the normal manner. As a place of business, you are the originator, and as long as you have a return address you are "trusted." If you take your mail to a facility, you would still be OK, but would have to show proof of who you were (ID card) and all of your mail would need a valid return address consistent with your ID card. As far as clients paying you, you would still be OK for payments from institutional clients, since they would be under the same rules as above. Where you would have a problem is from individual clients who may claim that they either sent you payment, but you didn't receive it, or claimed they couldn't send you payment due to the mail situation. I appreciate the problem you would have, and perhaps the govt could require banks to automatically process payments, either on-line or by telephone. As your client, I would have to either mail you payment, or call my bank and provide them with whatever codes are needed for them to send you payment, or else pay you online. If I chose to mail you a payment, but you didn't receive it, I would have to resort to one of the other two methods, and you may have to share the pain by waiting a certain time, say two weeks, one month, I don't know, before receiving it. You may have a problem with the people you owe money to, but they would also have to bite the bullet, and if we all shared the pain, it might work. My guess is that if we made this a patriotic response to securing our mail system, not many would take advantage. Besides, you're a lawyer, right? The last thing I would do is withhold payment to a lawyer <g>