[GreenKeys] Punched TTY tapes as Media Mail

[Don Robert House K9TTY]

Well now having used MEDIA MAIL for several years…
paper is paper regardless of the form it takes.  I have shipped and received
rolls of paper and rolls of paper tape in boxes that included a BOUND BOOK.
The book cannot have any advertising in it, unless the ads are over 10 hers old.
Also weight is now a factor.  If the package exceeds a certain girth and weight
the USPS puts a $9.00 surcharge on the package. So sometimes you are 
better off sending the paper via FedEx Ground Home Delivery.

Just saying'

Don
K9TTY


On 08 May 2015, at 6:55 PM, dmm at lemur.com wrote:

> 
> The regulations are in the USPS Domestic Mail Manual, which is online
> (and I suspect every post office has a printed versions).  The relevant
> section is 4.1.i:
> 
> 4.0 Content Standards for Media Mail
> 4.1 Qualified Items
>    Only these items may be mailed at the Media Mail prices:
>    ...
>    i. Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information ...
> 
> See:
> 
> <http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/173.htm#1113611>
> 
> You can't include any correspondence in with it, though (our local
> postal clerk queried me on this a while back - and we opted to send
> a package that would otherwise have qualified but did have a cover letter
> as an ordinary package).
> 
> Note also that since there has been abuse of the media mail rates
> the postal clerk must (unless they're being nice and breaking the rules)
> inspect the contents before the package is sealed for mailing.
> 
> Regards,
> David M.
> ===
> Dr. David M. MacMillan  -  dmm at lemur.com
> 
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