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My understand of させてもらう is akin to "I'll take the liberty of doing x". It's not an actual request or asking for permission.
However this doesn't seem to be true for させていただきます? Which seems more about "being allowed"?
and then finally we have させていただきたい which seems more akin to "I want you to allow me"?
