Whenever I ship things through the US Post Office , its usually books so I just roll my eyes and reply its books when they ask me what Im shipping when I tell them its media mail and as they stamp in red letters on my package " MEDIA MAIL SUBJECT TO INSPECTION" I never gave it a second thought that some postal employee might actually open up and inspect my packages until...

Yesterday I recieved a package of a book I bought off ebay from a seller that was shipped media mail, and I opened it up and my book was there along with a Dvd that I had bought from another seller. The time difference was 3 weeks apart and the sellers are from different parts of the country:(one from New York and the other from California) so...

Apparently the post office opened up 2 of my packages to inspect and then just put the dvd in with the book and resealed it. There are no extra markings are notification from the PO that this had occured, but apparently this is what happened. I am curious if anyone else had  had anything like this happen before to them with media mail inspections. This is the first time for me and apparently it took place on the incoming end of the transaction.

That is exactly why I will NOT ship by media mail because the USPS believes noone and you packages can be opened AND damaged by careles postal inspectors. That is why I use Priority now...free supplies , no opening of packages and strong packaging potential. I once sent 10 Dragon magazine to ten different customers in re-enforced manila envelopes marked media mail and they questioned me as to what was in them. They opened one, flipped through it and saw what they believed to be adverts and stated that they did not qualify for media rate due to the adverts and opened all of them!

Never Again!

Stupid media mail  

Media Mail:

http://www.usps.com/send/waystosendmail ... iamail.htm

Afrika Corps wrote: I don't believe I have seen this issue raised before on this forum.

Media Mail has been discussed dozens of times here ... in fact, here is a thread you started in which you sing the praises of Media Mail:

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(Not to be confused with your timeless classic: "Is your post office ran by incompetant stupid ass baboons ?")

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Media Mail has been subject to inspection for quite some time. See this thread from 2005:

viewtopic.php?t=1419&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=40

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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.

I've received many, many items shipped by media mail.      A few have been opened.  However, the post office is supposed to put a note in the box that they have opened it to inspect.

You're situation is completely odd.  Maybe something weird happened to one of the packages and it was severly damaged . . . or something.