Is this happening in your area?
I take about 5-6 classes a semester and that generates about 6-10 books I need to sell at the end. The last 7 times I or my fiancée have gone to ship our books the usps clerks have had it out for us or media mail shippers in general. They get upset and tell us there had better not be any correspondence in this package. Or, we are going to open this after you leave. Or, Media Mail is not for sales it is only for library use. Or, this doesn't feel like a book are you sure there isn?t some other item in there.
Shipping dvds is even worse. They, as of late, have given me a complete hassle telling me dvds aren't media. Spending about 10mins getting a manager and having the manager make sure that nothing else is in the package except for dvds and not an invoice or any other paper in the form of a letter.
It never used to be this way, I guess they have a lot of people taking advantage of the discount rate.
Edit:
Media Mail - Basically used when shipping books, dvds, video games, vhs. There is also [Printed Bound Matter] which is usually even cheaper than media but only used for magazines and books.
I take about 5-6 classes a semester and that generates about 6-10 books I need to sell at the end. The last 7 times I or my fiancée have gone to ship our books the usps clerks have had it out for us or media mail shippers in general. They get upset and tell us there had better not be any correspondence in this package. Or, we are going to open this after you leave. Or, Media Mail is not for sales it is only for library use. Or, this doesn't feel like a book are you sure there isn?t some other item in there.
Shipping dvds is even worse. They, as of late, have given me a complete hassle telling me dvds aren't media. Spending about 10mins getting a manager and having the manager make sure that nothing else is in the package except for dvds and not an invoice or any other paper in the form of a letter.
It never used to be this way, I guess they have a lot of people taking advantage of the discount rate.
Edit:
Media Mail - Basically used when shipping books, dvds, video games, vhs. There is also [Printed Bound Matter] which is usually even cheaper than media but only used for magazines and books.
even with priority shipping)). I think the issue at hand is that the post office needs to atleast let places like half.com know that mediamail is not for profit purposes. There is some miscommunication somewhere down the line the lets people easily believe media mail is used for general purpose. It seems that half.com is only encouraging the problem even more.
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