Are Video Games considered Media Mail via USPS?

[Mysteriouskk]

Need to know, thanks

 

[Sluggo]

Everything is media mail until they check the contents.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Slim-style DVD cases, yes.

I'd bubble-wrap it or send in a rigid container personally.

- M4H

 

[iamme]

according to usps.com:

Media Mail®
Small and large packages, thick envelopes, and tubes can be sent using Media Mail. Contents are limited to books, film, manuscripts, sound recordings, video tapes, and computer media (such as CDs, DVDs, and diskettes). Sometimes called "Book Rate," Media Mail cannot contain advertising. Media Mail is less expensive than Parcel Post.

hope that helps

 

[Mysteriouskk]

Like are Gamecube games and Ps2 games considered Media Mail?

 

[Yzzim]

I told my postman that I was shipping some Xbox games and he gave me the media mail rate

 

[TreyRandom]

According to the USPS Web Site, here:

Computer-readable media are eligible for Media Mail.
Game cartridges are NOT eligible for Media Mail.

Highlighted for emphasis:

Media Mail

Items eligible for mailing at Media Mail rates are restricted to those listed in DMM E713.1. A recent DMM revision allows sound recordings to contain incidental announcements of other sound recordings and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such recordings. Note that video recordings are classified as a type of sound recording. Computer-readable CD-ROMs are eligible for Media Mail rates while game cartridges are not eligible.

Books sent as Media Mail may contain no advertising other than incidental announcements of other books. As a reminder, catalogs and publications authorized for Periodicals rates are not considered to be books and therefore are not eligible at Media Mail rates.

Mailers should note that the Postal Service may open and inspect Media Mail packages to ensure the contents qualify for Media Mail rates.

Your Post Office may take the package... but if any Post Office along the way decides to check it out, if it's not eligible for Media Mail shipping, they don't have to deliver it. Better safe than sorry when shipping stuff out, IMO.

Hope this helps. :thumbsup: