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D. BerginHonestly, It doesn't make much sense to me and is very vague as are many things considering the USPS's various rules. Magazines are pretty much the textbook definition of "Media".
"Advertising" and "Advertisements" can be construed as two totally different things.
If a DVD or Videotape has an advertisement for another movie or Coca-Cola in the previews..................does that make it ineligible for Media mail shipping?
Lastly, as an example I am about set to ship a large number of boxing newsletters from the 1960's to the 80's to a customer. These were generally self-published and didn't really contain any advertising. I would still classify many of them magazines. Can I ship these via Media Mail?
The bureaucracy it seems you have to navigate every day from your normal daily life to selling on Ebay just seems to be getting deeper and deeper all the time.