[Boatanchors] Media Mail, trying again.

[Kim Herron]

Hi Sheldon!

    I work for USPS and this subject gets better.   The inspection service 
(postal inspectors) has been getting REAL picky about opening mail to check to 
see if it's being mailed properly.  They are looking or money and this is one of 
the ways that they are doing it.   Conversion of mailing materials is another 
(turning Priority Mail boxes inside out and sending them parcel post, 
UPS etc).   The fines are huge and the trip to the Greybar hotel ain'tno fun.   
So if anyone has ANY doubt about what mail is apporpriate, ask a clerk at an 
office and follow their instructions.  Not doing so can be very unpleasant
 Kim Herron W8ZV
kim.herron at sbcglobal.net
1-616-677-3706 




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From: "sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov" <sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov>
To: sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Sun, September 12, 2010 9:51:37 AM
Subject: [Boatanchors] Media Mail, trying again.


John, 

unfortunately the Domestic Mail Manual doesn't differentiate between current 
advertisements and older advertisements.  


>From the DMM:
2.2 Content Standards 

Only these items may be mailed at the Media Mail prices: 

a. Books, including books issued to supplement other books, of at least eight 
printed pages, consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography, or 
reading matter with incidental blank spaces for notations and containing no 
advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books. Advertising 
includes paid advertising and the publishers' own advertising in display, 
classified, or editorial style.
http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/473.htm

Until and unless the DMM is changed, I suppose we either live with it or shade 
the truth.  Perhaps there might be a campaign to the USPS to amend the DMM to 
exempt advertising in magazines and catalogs more the ??? number of years.  Then 
I suppose we'd have to quibble over that number?

One of the real problems the USPS has is with mailers who claim MEDIA MAIL rates 
for contents that aren't remotely qualifying for the discount, unless the MADE 
IN CHINA label on the product qualifies for the item being reading material!

73
Sheldon

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