[Boatanchors] Media Mail and ads in old mags

[Howard Ritter]

If I understand this thread correctly, if I'm successful in selling my issues of QST from the '60s containing the series on TTY, I could not send them by Media Mail because they contain advertisements?

—howard n7exn


On Sep 12, 2010, at 12:58 PM, Kim Herron wrote:

> 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