Has the Post Office ever opened your package before they let you ship it?
06-01-05, 01:50 PM
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06-01-05, 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by mookiemeister
I'm not sure if the Store Forum is the proper place to post this message. Please let me know if it isn't.
My question about USPS Media Mail is this...
Today I went to post office to mail a DVD. The lady at the post office asked me if the package only contain the DVD and nothing else. I said there is a receipt/letter describing the content of the package, which is the DVD. She said that any kind of letter or receipt is not allowed in a media mail. She said I will have to ship the receipt separately using 1st class mail.
My question about USPS Media Mail is this...
Today I went to post office to mail a DVD. The lady at the post office asked me if the package only contain the DVD and nothing else. I said there is a receipt/letter describing the content of the package, which is the DVD. She said that any kind of letter or receipt is not allowed in a media mail. She said I will have to ship the receipt separately using 1st class mail.
06-01-05, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by kenbuzz
Heh, actually that's the old definition. Today, DVD stands for "Digital Versatile Disk" because it can be used for storage of any digital data, not necessarily video.
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06-01-05, 05:24 PM
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Yeah. I think I'm starting to understand the difference now between a regular receipt and a note. I told the lady I have a correspondence that describe the content of the DVD and she said that's not allowed. I think I have to make the note more like the normal receipt, where it only list the item and nothing else. I tend to write the receipt as regular English and I think that may be the reason she didn't accept it.
06-01-05, 07:39 PM
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Originally Posted by benedict
Grrr! Four hours too late for me to be the first person to point that out!
And the official answer is? "Nothing." The original acronym came from "digital video disc." Some members of the DVD Forum (see 6.1) tried to express that DVD goes far beyond video by retrofitting the painfully contorted phrase "digital versatile disc," but this has never been officially accepted by the DVD Forum as a whole. The DVD Forum decreed in 1999 that DVD, as an international standard, is simply three letters. After all, how many people ask what VHS stands for? (Guess what, no one agrees on that one either.)
06-01-05, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by mookiemeister
Yeah. I think I'm starting to understand the difference now between a regular receipt and a note. I told the lady I have a correspondence that describe the content of the DVD and she said that's not allowed. I think I have to make the note more like the normal receipt, where it only list the item and nothing else. I tend to write the receipt as regular English and I think that may be the reason she didn't accept it.
06-01-05, 11:58 PM
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I've sent out thousands of packages that my store sells on Amazon Marketplace by media mail. I have never been asked to open one to verify the contents. Also, I always send the Amazon packing slip plus a "thank you" note for ordering from us. It never occurred to me that either of those things would be not allowed. I wouldn't think either of these would be personal correspondence requiring first class mail since both are merely incidental to the purchase of the book, CD, DVD etc. that is being sent.
06-02-05, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by movielib
I've sent out thousands of packages that my store sells on Amazon Marketplace by media mail. I have never been asked to open one to verify the contents. Also, I always send the Amazon packing slip plus a "thank you" note for ordering from us. It never occurred to me that either of those things would be not allowed. I wouldn't think either of these would be personal correspondence requiring first class mail since both are merely incidental to the purchase of the book, CD, DVD etc. that is being sent.
06-02-05, 12:56 AM
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Between eBay, Half.com and Amazon, I've sent hundreds of media mail packages and haven't ever been asked to open a package. Only once has a new clerk asked me what I was sending using media mail.
06-02-05, 11:21 PM
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About half the time that I ship media mail I am told that the package becomes open to inspection.
Also, they say you can't ship advertisements mediamail, yet the mediamail packages I get from Amazon, etc all have promotional brochures and other advertising.
Also, they say you can't ship advertisements mediamail, yet the mediamail packages I get from Amazon, etc all have promotional brochures and other advertising.
06-03-05, 07:17 AM
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I've only gotten the "what's in this package?" questioning a few times.
The last time I mailed something, I was mailing a bunch of CD-Rs to a trading buddy (lossless music) and when I said media mail, the postal person said "What's in here?"
I responded "disks, computer disks." She politely informed me that computer discs weren't really valid for media mail but regular CDs (i.e. audio) were. She told me to just say "CDs" the next time someone asked. ???? I explained that they were the same thing, just different content on the same media, but she shrugged and gave me the "I know, I don't make these stupid rules" speech.
The last time I mailed something, I was mailing a bunch of CD-Rs to a trading buddy (lossless music) and when I said media mail, the postal person said "What's in here?"
I responded "disks, computer disks." She politely informed me that computer discs weren't really valid for media mail but regular CDs (i.e. audio) were. She told me to just say "CDs" the next time someone asked. ???? I explained that they were the same thing, just different content on the same media, but she shrugged and gave me the "I know, I don't make these stupid rules" speech.
06-03-05, 08:29 AM
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She also didn't understand the 'stupid rules'.
From the USPS website:
"computer-readable media."
A "computer disk" is definitely a "computer readable media", thus, eligible for media mail.
Hmm...the Atari 2600 was also called the VCS, Video Computer System...so could a 2600 cartridge be shipped MM?
Using priority mail boxes as non-pri shipping: It's one thing to 'recycle' ones you've already recieved, but to turn them inside out and ship using another method, that's both illegal and wrong. Next time postal rates go up, we'll know whom to thank in part.
From the USPS website:
"computer-readable media."
A "computer disk" is definitely a "computer readable media", thus, eligible for media mail.
Hmm...the Atari 2600 was also called the VCS, Video Computer System...so could a 2600 cartridge be shipped MM?
Using priority mail boxes as non-pri shipping: It's one thing to 'recycle' ones you've already recieved, but to turn them inside out and ship using another method, that's both illegal and wrong. Next time postal rates go up, we'll know whom to thank in part.
06-03-05, 10:16 PM
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Only recently have I been asked what was in the package, and the last time I was in was the first time I had been told that it may opened and searched.
06-04-05, 12:35 AM
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I've wondered about magazines like Ladybug, Spider, and Cricket that have no advertising other than ads saying buy these magazines (much like books with ads at the end for other books). They seem like media mail even though they're magazines. Bulk printed matter just ends up in the trash if the recipient can't be found whereas other types of mail are returned to the sender--so bulk isn't necessarily better than media.
The policies about media mail are too dang complicated and unclear when they don't have to be.
The policies about media mail are too dang complicated and unclear when they don't have to be.
