JasonZavoda wrote:Manuscripts are covered under media mail.Of course all these rules developed because of shipping from publishing companies. I bet Ben Franklin is to blame.
killjoy32 wrote:but you said something with staples isnt...
JasonZavoda wrote:Yes but manuscripts are specifically listed and the other material we were talking about, modules, comic books, magazines, etc... are published material.
killjoy32 wrote:ok so you can have a manuscript but not a module?what if i had a manuscript of a module?not trying to be awkward here, just trying to work out how daft that system is.Al
JasonZavoda wrote:Mike,I think if you checked at the state or federal level, rather than the local unit postmaster, you would find that your B2 could not be shipped as media mail. Other than this summer I haven't been an active seller or shipper in years, but I don't care to break the law, even a stupid law, to save a few bucks. I'll save my transgressions for something more vital to me.
JasonZavoda wrote:I believe you have been ill advised.
Xaxaxe wrote:Here's a quick practical guide to Media Mail: be prepared for anything.*It's technically not supposed to contain any advertsing ... but your area postal employees may or may not know or care about this.*It can be inspected at any time along its route from A-to-B ... but your area postal employees may or may not know or care about this.*It cannot be used as the lone form of postage for a Carrier Pickup transaction ... but your area postal employees may or may not know or care about this.*and on and on and on ...The point being: be prepared to possibly answer a couple of questions, or to have your item opened, or to be asked to upgrade to at least Parcel Post. With Media Mail, you're getting the service you've paid for, if you catch my meaning.Or, better yet, ship Priority Mail.
napoleonsdad wrote:I find nothing more annoying than to see shipping charges of $7-$9 plus to mail a single module "via standard shipping" and additional modules combined at half the stated rate. Further, standard shipping is typically the term for media mail so the seller will make a decent profit on shipping alone.
Afrika Corps wrote:When I go to the post office to ship items, I tell the counter clerk either media mail or first class ( Its none of their business anyway what Im shipping unless they are prepared to open it right then and there) , and they never question me except when I go to an odd different PO that I normally dont deal with. I never disclose what Im shipping and have never had anything returned to me. Most postal employees are as ignorant and lazy to their actual job duties and responsibilities as most government employees are in general. Media Mail is subject to inspection: so what? Im not shipping cocaine or explosives. check away, just make sure you repackage the item just as I prepared it. There is no law broken in sending a game module media mail rate, but it is costly and needlessly stupid to send the same module priority mail rate, when you can just as easily send it first class mail rate cheaper.
JasonZavoda wrote:Titan games took me for a $250 lot years agoAs far as $7 to ship a module, that isn't too high becuase you can't send them media mail. It's either priority or parcel post. If you sell through ebay you need tracking so it is something like $5.15 minimum to ship the lightest module.
JasonZavoda wrote:Media Mail is 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 like CDs and diskettes. Media Mail cannot contain advertising.
I ship modules priority mail, boxed, which the buyers appreciate. I ship books and media, media mail boxed, which gets some people worked up about the extreme length of time it can take for them to arrive but I've never had anything arrived damaged.
Afrika Corps wrote: just as good as an $8 dollar priority box.