[Boatanchors] FS items

[manualman at juno.com]

Being a postal office almost daily user, I've been told that Media Mail
package inspection is not uncommon and can be done not only at local post
offices but even at distribution mail centers. Do you really want to risk
a Federal looking person banging on your front door because you decided
to try and slip something past the federal employees just to save some
money. Personally, I never ship anything by Media Mail. It has the
lowest, lowest ship and handling priority.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 12:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com>
writes:
> I took the package to the Post Office, along with several other 
> packages that I needed to mail at the same time.  The personnel at 
> the Post Office would not let me mail the magazines by media mail.  
> They asked me what was in the package and said that they would have 
> to open and inspect the material.  I told them that the contents 
> were magazines from the 1950s and was told that anything with 
> advertising in the material, no matter how old, cannot be sent by 
> media mail.  The Postal regulations do not make any differentiation 
> as to how old the advertising material actually is.
> 
> It seems that way too many people have been sending things by media 
> mail that do not meet the requirements just to save money.  I see 
> the same clerks time after time and they are quite friendly and 
> helpful.  However, there are certain regulations that are in place 
> and, in the case of media mail, the "higher ups" have "cracked down" 
> on the abuse and the clerks have to follow the regulations "to the 
> letter".
> 
> Glen, K9STH