[Boatanchors] Media Mail and ads in old mags

[The Pollacks]

Correct.  I have had several packages opened by mail clerks to verify.

-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Howard Ritter
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 10:22 AM
To: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Boatanchors] Media Mail and ads in old mags

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 
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