[GreenKeys] Punched TTY tapes as Media Mail

[Pete Lancashire]

Or get enough to make an LTL shipment worth it. One thing nice about bulk
paper products is you can class them pretty close to scrap.

It is how I got the paper rolls that show up in bulk from time to time. I
asked the seller how many cases on a pallet and got him to see the light so
to say by leaving the pallet wrapped and just slap on a new label. The
price came down about 20% just for that.

Now if I could find a pallet of 1" I would be fixed for life.

-pete

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Don Robert House K9TTY <
62.5milliamps at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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