I have heard that before and might check into it before I lug them up there.
I have to go anyway so will just take my regular first class stuff and ask when there....I would hate to lug these big boxes up there if I had to ship them priority...I guess it would be better to just chuck them at that point...we shall see...
btw, one of their statutes for media mail is this in bold below, and to me these are "wholly reading matter"....there is no current anything as all are 25+ years old, again, who knows...-
Qualified Items
Only these items may be mailed at the Media Mail rates:
a. Books, including books issued to supplement other books, of at least eight
printed pages,
consisting wholly of reading matter or
scholarly bibliography, or
reading matter with incidental blank spaces for notations and containing no
advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books. Advertising
includes paid advertising and the publishers’ own advertising in display,
classified, or editorial style.
b. 16-millimeter or narrower width films, which must be positive prints in final form
for viewing, and catalogs of such films of 24 pages or more (at least 22 of which
are printed). Films and film catalogs sent to or from commercial theaters do not
qualify for the Media Mail rate.
c. Printed music, whether in bound or sheet form.
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Originally Posted by obcbobd
Leon,
I was shipping some old book and magazines (Beatle related circa 1964) and was told at the PO I could not use media mail on magazines and the fact that they were 50 years old didn't seem to matter.
Hope you have better luck
Bob
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