posted on July 10, 2003 02:21:49 PM new
Since a magazine can be considered 'media,' I would think that magazines can be shipped by media mail. I have about 5 boxes of Playboy magazines to sell and it would cost a small fortune to ship them at regular rates.
[ edited by ebayauctionguy on Jul 10, 2003 02:27 PM ]
posted on July 10, 2003 02:28:05 PM new
I recently mailed 50 issues of
The Absolute Sound magazine
via Media Mail with no trouble at
all.
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"I'm gonna punk you out, brotha!" -- Ralphie May, Last Comic Standing
(TV Show)
posted on July 10, 2003 02:55:43 PM new
The USPS website says that media mail cannot contain advertisements and that would rule out magazines. But here are the restrictions for "Bound Printed Matter":
Description
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.
I don't see anything there that would disqualify magazines from being shipped Bound Printed Matter.
Well, "technically" magazines would be Bound Printed Matter and not Media Mail because they contain advertising. But one time I asked the wrong clerk at the PO (you know - the one who knows everything in the world) and he said bound printed was only for big advertisers. I figured he was all wet, as usual, so next time I went to my favorite postie who said no problem sending magazines Media, which is cheaper anyway.
(Which just shows to go 'ya it pays to buy your favorite postie that strange old record album he's been searching for all these years when you see it on eBay for $3.00 BIN and $5.00 shipping! Really, truly did happen. He sent me a thank you card with twenty bucks in it. LOL!)
Anyway, more-or-less back on topic, here's some info from USPS website:
Bound Printed Matter must:
a. Consist of advertising, promotional, directory, or editorial material (or any combination of such material).
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.
Bound Printed Matter must:
a. Consist of advertising, promotional, directory, or editorial material (or any combination of such material).
posted on July 10, 2003 03:01:13 PM new
I ship any printed material via insured media mail. It's not the fastest, but it is by far the cheapest. I've never had a problem.
posted on July 10, 2003 05:18:11 PM new
OK you guys and gals don't you consider PlayBoy Medical material and educational. Just joking I just had to add that.
Just joking I just had to add that.