Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
You do not want to use library rate. If it gets lost in the mail or is somehow undeliverable (address error or anything), the post office will discard the package. It is not returnable or forwardable. Media Mail is. Library rate is intended for delivery between libraries.
Also, Media Mail is not necessarily the cheapest rate. If the package weighs less than a pound, first class is usually cheaper.
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Parcel post is the cheapest rate for over a pound
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actually, flat rate priority mail is often cheaper than parcel post
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For heavy shipments that will not fit into flat rate envelopes or boxes, parcel post is the cheapest. Just went through this mess of having to figure the cheapest way to send a carton. Trying to figure out all the rates on line is a pain, so I just phone the USPS, and get the cheapest rate. This is for USA shipping.
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10:47:15am
I ran into a problem sending some magazines using media mail a year or two ago.
I wound up discarding the media mail idea.
4.0 Content Standards for Media Mail
4.1 Qualified Items
Only these items may be mailed at the Media Mail prices:
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.
NOTE the underlined ".... containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books..."
I am sure that the last time I looked through The American Philatelist there was just a bit of advertising.
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That is true as well. I forgot to include that. Thanks for the clarification.
Shipping parcel post versus priority mail varies greatly and yes, is a pain in the butt to figure out which method is cheapest to use. The further you ship something from where you are, priority mail begins to be cheaper than parcel post, unless you get into the heavier weights.
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Forget Media Mail, as you cannot send any pamphlets that have advertising in them, this also includes any stamp catalogs. If anything is discovered by postal authorities that is wrong, it is usually confiscated.
Library mail is the cheapest rate, and only good for sending to a library.
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09:44:28pm
re: Parcel post, media mail, priority, and library rate
You do not want to use library rate. If it gets lost in the mail or is somehow undeliverable (address error or anything), the post office will discard the package. It is not returnable or forwardable. Media Mail is. Library rate is intended for delivery between libraries.
Also, Media Mail is not necessarily the cheapest rate. If the package weighs less than a pound, first class is usually cheaper.
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re: Parcel post, media mail, priority, and library rate
Parcel post is the cheapest rate for over a pound
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re: Parcel post, media mail, priority, and library rate
actually, flat rate priority mail is often cheaper than parcel post
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re: Parcel post, media mail, priority, and library rate
For heavy shipments that will not fit into flat rate envelopes or boxes, parcel post is the cheapest. Just went through this mess of having to figure the cheapest way to send a carton. Trying to figure out all the rates on line is a pain, so I just phone the USPS, and get the cheapest rate. This is for USA shipping.
Richaard
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28 Oct 2011
10:47:15am
re: Parcel post, media mail, priority, and library rate
I ran into a problem sending some magazines using media mail a year or two ago.
I wound up discarding the media mail idea.
4.0 Content Standards for Media Mail
4.1 Qualified Items
Only these items may be mailed at the Media Mail prices:
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.
NOTE the underlined ".... containing no advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books..."
I am sure that the last time I looked through The American Philatelist there was just a bit of advertising.
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12:55:26pm
re: Parcel post, media mail, priority, and library rate
That is true as well. I forgot to include that. Thanks for the clarification.
Shipping parcel post versus priority mail varies greatly and yes, is a pain in the butt to figure out which method is cheapest to use. The further you ship something from where you are, priority mail begins to be cheaper than parcel post, unless you get into the heavier weights.
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re: Parcel post, media mail, priority, and library rate
Forget Media Mail, as you cannot send any pamphlets that have advertising in them, this also includes any stamp catalogs. If anything is discovered by postal authorities that is wrong, it is usually confiscated.
Library mail is the cheapest rate, and only good for sending to a library.
Richaard
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