[Boatanchors] Media Mail, trying again.

[J. Forster]

What a waste of Postal Patron's money!  Think Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi".

FWIW,

-John

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> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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