[Boatanchors] Media Mail, trying again.

[J. Forster]

Government is not constrained by rationality.

"Kill a chicken to scare the monkeys".

FWIW,

-John

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> Yeah, can you imagine such idiocy as anyone believing that you will be
> busted for reversing a single box! Wow, would the media and Leno have fun
> with that.
>
> Sounds like the PI's need to be downsized to doing just what is important
> while saving us money.
> Maybe the Tea Party should come out in protest for the next proposed
> postal
> increase.
>
> Carl
> KM1H
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "J. Forster" <jfor at quik.com>
> To: "Kim Herron" <kim.herron at sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>; <sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov>
> Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 1:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Media Mail, trying again.
>
>
> What a waste of Postal Patron's money!  Think Seinfeld's "Soup Nazi".
>
> FWIW,
>
> -John
>
> ==============
>
>
>
>
>> 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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