[Boatanchors] Media Mail, trying again.

[J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT]

Just the hassle...go to a UPS store and send it that way.
To heck with the byzantine ways of the USPS.  
No wonder they are going out of business!
My tax dollar at work!  YIKES!

Thanks & 73,
Gordon Beattie, W2TTT
201.314.6964

-----Original Message-----
From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of J. Forster
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 5:32 PM
To: Kim Herron
Cc: boatanchors at mailman.qth.net; sdaitch at kuw.ibb.gov
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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