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With a POD after 1980, create a scenario where the USPS charges a fee (perhaps the letter price, perhaps less) for emails which go from one location to another. It's likely too late to install such a fee today, but when email was first getting started...

It would very likely be broken very quickly with email spoofing and so forth, but in a situation like this the government may try to get ahead of the people who try to game the system (major fines and stuff).

The fee would be based on the country in which the email originated.
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