I've been specifically told that I can not ship Playstation 2 and Gamecube games via Media Mail. I printed out the same description regarding Media Mail and "computer-readable" discs but the same guy said that games have "advertisements" and did not qualify for Media Mail. How can I show this guy once and for all that they DO qualify so I can avoid further hassle?
Oh and the Government is allowed to regulate and control "needed services" so the public can not be held hostage by private enterprise (UPS strike comes to mind). I was just looking at the 5-digit zip code post office directory today and my mind was spinning that they could offer such a service to so many disparate locations that no private company would care about. Bless the USPS.
And to the people who don't understand how overnight rates could go up due to email: They still have to keep all those offices open. Higher operating costs and mark-ups SHOULD be distributed across the range of services.
My brother told me about this thread but AT's search is so broken it took me hours to find. "USPS" and "Media Mail" returned bogus results under "any," "all," or "exact" searches until I restricted it to thread topics and summary only. WTF?!
Originally posted by: Eeezee
I personally don't really agree with media mail except for library-library mail. If you're sending a heavy object through mail, you should be charged by the size and weight.
A DVD is so lightweight, I don't know why they bothered classifying it as media mail.
There are items that are atypically heavy for their value yet not fragile. Books are one of them. A discount rate with similarly cut-rate service makes sense. Why does it have to be a library-to-library thing? :roll: Also, DVD's could be mailed in envelopes if they wouldn't get cracked in transit. They're small and light enough. It doesn't make sense to classify it as a parcel just because you couldn't safely mail it as a letter. Media Mail makes sense there too.
The only reason they reference advertising is because they don't want people sending you unsolicited junk mail video tapes and crap at a discount rate. Not because they are trying to limit it to non-profit library exchanges and crap. Honestly, you guys read too much into things. Use LOGIC before forming a principle and asserting it.
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