OH CRAP?! Then is VHS NOT media mail? I just sent a bunch this way today. I noticed it used to be "book rate" and was switched to "media," so I thought they'd actually moved along with technology (okay, at least a little).
They are so going to get checked, I just wrapped the tape in brown paper so it's totally obvious it is a video tape. Since when is video tape NOT media?
dumbass PO. I wish I could be done with them.
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Vidoes ARE considered media - so don't worry about that.
Books and magazines are NOT though - they are supposed to go "book rate" or "bound and printed material". It's higher than media, but not as high as parcel post, determined by zone.
Originally posted by Dancing~Giraffe Vidoes ARE considered media - so don't worry about that.
Books and magazines are NOT though - they are supposed to go "book rate" or "bound and printed material". It's higher than media, but not as high as parcel post, determined by zone.
Really? I thought books were media.. lol opps..I wont be doing business with myself from now on!!! urgh!!!
ok now that's confusing!
I mean obviously clothing/diapers/jewerly are NOT media but I assumed books were. See what I get for ASSuming?
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They always tell me that there's a possibility that they'll be opened and checked. I always reply that I don't care as long as it gets put back together properly and reaches the recipient without delay.
Originally posted by Dancing~Giraffe Vidoes ARE considered media - so don't worry about that.
Books and magazines are NOT though - they are supposed to go "book rate" or "bound and printed material". It's higher than media, but not as high as parcel post, determined by zone.
They don't have "book rate" here anymore. If you say "book rate", they'll say "Oh that's called Media Mail now". Whatever works for them works for me!
Book rate is the old term for what the USPS now calls Media Mail. They're one and the same but Media Mail covers more forms of 'media' like VHS tapes, DVDs, etc. Thank goodness I live in a small town. I'd be more than livid if I had to bring all my Media Mail packages (over 50 a week) to the PO unopened!
This junk about them opening the packages and then the envelopes arriving with missing items is horse hockey. I wish there were other options for cheap shipping on light items. I hate monopolies
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from the usps web site:
Media MailŪ service is a cost efficient way to mail books, sound recordings, recorded video tapes, printed music, and recorded computer-readable media (such as CDs, DVDs, and diskettes). Media Mail can not contain advertising except for incidental announcements of books. The maximum weight for Media Mail is 70 lbs.
Originally posted by ~MamaCharly~ To me it is disgusting that things are missing, especially when it's an ebay thing or something how can you prove you actually sent it all and some didn't get stolen at the PO?
The fact that they sent back a card! Give me abreak, so if you send someone a video for their birthday or something you have to send a card seperatly, that's bull cr*p. Oh, can you tell I'm irritated
Your PO receipt will prove that you sent items. It will have a zip code and a weight on it.
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Ok, so if I send something media mail it often takes forever and gets the *&%$ whipped out of it. Therefore, I tape them like crazy. Hmmm....I am should bring them unwrapped so they can see what is in them and then tape at the post office? I guess what is so frustrating is that I have to tape like crazy to protect my package but they either want to see it unwrapped or will open it and mess up all of my tape. Who really makes sure if it gets put back together properly? Can you tell I am a little frustrated? I have had many problems with my mail arriving intact and really have issues with them messing with it as I have not received on missing item that I reported. It is all so confusing. If the postal workers here weren't so rude and indifferent and treated my mail a little better I might be more understanding. Ugh! We dump a lot of money into mailing things and now have yet another opportunity for someone to "lose" an item.
Originally posted by MosaicMama I'd be more than livid if I had to bring all my Media Mail packages (over 50 a week) to the PO unopened!
I'd be annoyed too, but not as much as the workers would be I mail quite a bit each week and I think if I showed up at the PO with all of my packages open they would probably shoot me.
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I wish there were other options for cheap shipping on light items. I hate monopolies
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a couple of years ago i sent dh to the post office with $80 and A LOT of packages. i remember thinking it would be about $60 to ship them all. this was when we lived in a small town in texas and they had just hired their holiday help. one of the newbies checked dh at the counter and he told her, as always, cheapest method.
when he got home he told me it was only 20-something dollars. nice surprise but i thought i had just estimated wrong.
about a week later i was looking at the receipt for a customer when i saw every single package had been sent book rate ! i just knew the feds were going to come get me but they never showed up, whew!
The maximum weight for Bound Printed Matter is 15 pounds. Rates are based on weight, shape, and distance. The maximum size is 108 inches in combined length and distance around the thickest part.
Mark each package "Bound Printed Matter" in the postage area.
Bound Printed Matter must:
a. Consist of advertising, promotional, directory, or editorial material (or any combination of such material).
b. Be securely bound by permanent fastenings such as staples, spiral binding, glue, or stitching. Looseleaf binders and similar fastenings are not considered permanent.
c. Consist of sheets of which at least 90% are imprinted by any process other than handwriting or typewriting with words, letters, characters, figures, or images (or any combination of them).
d. Not have the nature of personal correspondence.
e. Not be stationery, such as pads of blank printed forms.
it is different than media mail (aka book rate), another c/p:
Media Mail (Book Rate)
Description
Used for books, film, manuscripts, printed music, printed test materials, sound recordings, play scripts, printed educational charts, loose-leaf pages and binders consisting of medical information, videotapes, and computer recorded media such as CD-ROMs and diskettes. Media Mail cannot contain advertising.
The maximum size is 108 inches in combined length and distance around the thickest part.
Mark each package "Media Mail" in the postage area.
About bad things happening to mail...the postal clerk once told me that the package should be able to withstand being dropped from her counter (and she demonstrated) or it's not fit for shipping. I try to keep that in mind when I am packaging and choosing between an insured parcel company or the USPS.
! i just knew the feds were going to come get me but they never showed up, whew!
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