[Boatanchors] Medial Mail

[bcarling@cfl.rr.com]

So I guess you can't ship a DVD or CD if it has a web address printed in the internal package that leads to a web advertisement for their CDs. I am starting to think that perhaps nothing really qualifies as media mail if the adjudicator wants to be a pedant.


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From: manualman at juno.com
To: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Boatanchors] Medial Mail
Date: Sat, Jul 16, 2011 2:05 pm


I agree. I also just came back from my local post office and asked the
Supervisor there about Media Mail. If it's a book or a magazine, and it
has advertising in it, it can't ship by Media Mail no matter how you
label the outside of the package (Media Mail - Bound Matter, Media Mail -
Printed Matter, Media Mail - History Matter, etc.). Since the typical
postal package can go through several offices and distribution centers on
its route from here to there, no everyone may have a more open and/or the
same view of Media Mail labeled packages.

Pete, wa2cwa


On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 10:38:17 -0700 (PDT) Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
writes:
> Unfortunately, most of the Postmasters / managers don't take this 
> view!  I wish they did!
> 
> Glen, K9STH
> 
> Website:  http://k9sth.com
> 
> 
> --- On Sat, 7/16/11, Bill Cotter <n4lg at qx.net> 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 a historical document contains an advertisement does not make it the 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."
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