[Boatanchors] ER Magazines

[manualman at juno.com]

Well, I guess if you send some boatanchor info by Media Mail, and it gets
tagged and returned to you, you can argue that point with them.
It is what it is and you can dance with the issue all day long but it
won't change their rules. The rules are clear and concise; it's very
restrictive to use that method of shipment as per their rules.

I never use it so I really don't care.

Also, from what I've told and seen personally, Media Mail has no defined
carrier or direction. Media Mail tends to ride on a mobile carrier,
(truck, train, plane, etc.) where ever there is room. That's why it
generally has no direct route. Rather then going from point A to B
directly; it commonly goes from point A to point D. from point D to point
F. from point F to point C, from point C to point E, and then from point
E to point B. Points A through F are USPS distribution or sorting centers
which is why some times your USPS package take the scenic route and winds
up being delivered 14 to 16 days later rather then 3 or 4 days.

We beat this topic to death for another year.

Pete, wa2cwa

On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 00:12:30 -0500 "KA2PTE" <ka2pte at 3950.net> writes:
> 
> Do they watch all the videos on the VHS tapes and DVD's
> to make sure there are no ads on them? Also there may be an
> ad in the newspaper you use to pack the stuff into the box.
> 
> Media and ads go as far back as the dawn of the newspaper,
> radio, TV and even now you cannot surf the web without
> making money for an ad someplace.
> 
> If the ad was interfering with the operation of their service
> in some way then it makes sense, but its inside a box covered with 
> pages
> and no one will be looking at them taking them serious.
> 
> I guess you may find an RCA ad in there for some tubes, and say 
> there
> well RCA is still around and so are tubes, but RCA was bought out by 
> the 
> Chinese
> and they dont make tubes anymore so the ads and the articles are 
> generally
> nostalgia, to me anyway.
> 
> --
> Steve Hearns [ KA2PTE ]