roundtable: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....

roundtable: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....

Re: universal service and non profit amendments....

Hanno T. Beck (hbeck@Essential.ORG)
Mon, 28 Mar 1994 08:22:31 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 08:22:31 -0500 (EST)
From: "Hanno T. Beck" <hbeck@Essential.ORG>
Subject: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.85.9403262021.C1318-0100000@idi.net>
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On Sun, 27 Mar 1994, Mary Gardiner Jones wrote:
>
> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 1994 07:40:20 -0500
> From: Mary Gardiner Jones <mgjones@idi.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <roundtable@cni.org>
> Subject: Re: universal service and non profit amendments....
> 
> 
> I agree tha pseudo non profits is not a very felicitous term although 
> you clearly got my drift. I guess if I have to bite the bullit, I will 
> opt for any non profit that qualifies for 501 c 3 status. Otherwise I 
> would be guilty of trying to abridge someone's free speech. We don't 
> screen the content of the users of the non profit postal rate. We have 
> established it because it is good public policy even tho some of us may 
> not like all the users of that rate.
> 
> Mary Gardiner Jones
> Alliance for Public Technology (APT)	|   Internet:	mgjones@idi.net


  Actually, "we" _do_ screen the content of the users of the non profit 
postal rate.  Happens all the time; nonprofits must regularly wrangle 
with postal inspectors, sometimes in dozens of different regions, for a 
single mailing.  You'd be surprised how complex things can get when local 
postmasters challenge a mailing, for various reasons.

  And also, "we" have gotten rid of the nonprofit postal discount.  It 
was voted out this past autumn and the phase-out will be complete by 
1997.  

  And also, I must say there's no particular reason to draw the line of 
nonprofit legitimacy at those who have an IRS 501(c)(3) designation.  
That is simply a category for taxation/legal purposes.  Many other 
nonprofits are great for society, and many 501(c)(3)s are harmful.  Your 
own judgement is much better for this purpose than that of the IRS.
 

Hanno Beck
Essential Information			|   Internet:	hbeck@essential.org

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