[Boatanchors] Medial Mail

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

I too encountered this at the post office where I mailed my out of country 
QSL cards. They also insisted on no abbreviations and no punctuation marks. 
I surmise it is a scanner issue. Who knows.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bcarling at cfl.rr.com>
To: "mac" <w7qho at aol.com>; "Bill Cotter" <n4lg at qx.net>
Cc: "boatanchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; 
<milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2011 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Medial Mail


> Yes! For a while I was mailing things from one Post Office where they 
> insisted that any letter going to Canada must have the address in all 
> capital letters.
> Other post offices did not care. Now none of them demands this.
>
>
> ----- Reply message -----
> From: "mac" <w7qho at aol.com>
> To: "Bill Cotter" <n4lg at qx.net>
> Cc: "boatanchors List" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>, 
> "milsurplus at mailman.qth.net Mail List" <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: [Boatanchors] Medial Mail
> Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 2:12 pm
>
>
> Bill, et-al,
>
> Interesting and makes sense but the manager's statement may or may not
> reflect official USPO policy. I regularly mail out DVDs in the
> standard DVD/CD cardboard mailers but every time it's a crapshoot as
> to whether it's a small package, letter, oversize letter or something
> else.  The definition varies PO to PO and window to window within
> POs.  I've been asked "what did you pay last time?" by some clerks,
> but whatever I had been told before by somebody else is usually
> dismissed out of hand.  Don't know if going back to USPO headquarters
> for an authoritative judgement would do any good or not.  :^(
>
> Dennis D.  W7QHO
> Glendale, CA
>
> ******************
> On Jul 16, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Bill Cotter wrote:
>
>> I just returned from our local Post Office. The manager stated that
>> "The intent of the Media Mail restriction on advertisements refers
>> strictly to the bulk shipping of flyers, handbills, printed
>> advertisements, catalogs, graphic art advertising and other
>> print-shop jobs." In other words, media to be used to promote
>> selling (present tense).
>>
>> He also said "Magazines, manuals, CD's, DVD's, publications,
>> journals, digests, etc are considered books or bound materials, and
>> are shippable as media mail." He went on to say ".....The fact that
>> a historical document contains an advertisement does not make it
>> the dominant characteristic of the material......" It is a
>> magazine, not a catalog.
>>
>> He suggested printing on the package "Media Mail - Bound matter."
>>
>> With respect to Pete's cry of "lying", it is clearly wrong to call
>> a radio in a box "media mail", and truthful to call a bunch of QSTs
>> a "books or bound matter."
>>
>> 73 Bill N4LG
>
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