[Boatanchors] [Johnson] POPULAR ELECTRONICS MAGAZINES

[Carl]

I simply tell them or tell the seller to say that they are research 
books which is what I actually consider vintage magazines.

Just because the PO regs were written with current magazines as the 
reason for the ban doesnt mean us poor beleaguered taxpayers have to 
play their silly games.

I just had several decades of very old QST's arrive from CA via media 
mail in fine shape.

Carl
KM1H


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glen Zook" <gzook at yahoo.com>
To: <Boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; <hammarlund at mailman.qth.net>; 
<johnson at mailman.qth.net>; <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>; <DWAVE35 at aol.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 5:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Johnson] POPULAR ELECTRONICS MAGAZINES


>
> 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
>
>
>
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