Posted by Harlan Messinger on 12/01/06 12:21

CJM wrote:
> "Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:4t3g4vF129ul5U2@mid.individual.net...
>> Dylan Parry wrote:
>>> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>>>
>>>> It doesn't need to be "collected".
>>> Of course it does! Who do you think geocodes new properties?
>> They have to do that *anyway* to use the codes *themselves*. They don't
>> have to do it all over again just to post the list so the rest of us have
>> access to it.
>
> So if they did need to use the data themselves, it would be wrong of them to
> sell it at a profit to subsidize the cost of collection??

I don't see the government as being in business to make a profit. I see
them as providing services at no more than cost. The cost of putting a
list of postal codes on the postal organization's web site is de
minimis. If they were to charge for cost, it would probably be under USD 1.

> Next thing you
> know we'll be asked to pay for postage for our letters!

The cost of delivering mail is not de minimis.

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