Special Interest Postage

   Re "Bill links stamps, breast cancer fight," May 8: 
Funding for breast cancer research is certainly a valiant cause,
but why should the government get involved in the fund-raising 
efforts for private research?
   Dr. Balazs Bodai's estimated $200 million return will 
soon be $100 million after the Sierra Club gets its own stamp,
then $50 million when NOW and AARP get theirs.  Eventually, we
would wind up with a multitude of new stamps and a post office
overrun by accounting and inventory headaches and lawsuits from 
groups, such as the "Friends of Three-Legged-Poodles," who are
denied their own stamp.
   Good intentions and politics aside, this idea stinks.  I'll
send my money directly to the charity of my choice.

Gerald J. Klaas