[Boatanchors] [Johnson] POPULAR ELECTRONICS MAGAZINES

[Glen Zook]

Just a note, don't tell the Post Office clerk that you are sending magazines by media mail.  The Post Office no longer allows bulk shipping of magazines by media mail.  There is a restriction in the postal code that prohibits sending anything that contains advertising by media mail and the magazines definitely contain advertising.  Unfortunately, there is no time-limit on advertising and even though it may be decades old the Post Office still considers it to be advertising.

I ran into this problem about 2 weeks ago when I tried to send a number of, it just so happens, Popular Electronics from Texas to Indiana.  The clerk asked me what was in the package and I told her just some decades old magazines.  She then informed me of the regulations and I had to send them by parcel post which was considerably more expensive.  When I got home I went to the USPS website and read the regulations.  Unfortunately, the clerk was correct.

I would use something like FedEx ground to send a bunch of magazines because that is going to be much cheaper than paying even parcel post rates at the Post Office.

Glen, K9STH

Website:  http://k9sth.com


--- On Thu, 4/23/09, DWAVE35 at aol.com <DWAVE35 at aol.com> wrote:


> 
> 1961 - JUN
> 1963 - JUN
> 1964 - FEB, APR, NOV, DEC
> 1965 - COMPLETE less MAY
> 1966 - COMPLETE
> 1967 - COMPLETE
> 1968 - COMPLETE
> 1969 - JAN, FEB
> 1971 - DEC
> 1972 - COMPLETE
> 1973 - JAN
> 1976 - AUG
> -----------------------------
> TOTAL = 70 ISSUES
> 
$50 + Media Mail shipping