Cleaning out storage room FREE ITEMS

[Scott Stevens]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:00:41 -0700 (PDT)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, William Donzelli wrote:
> 
> > >    Hint:  Software and manuals can be shipped CHEAP using USPS
> > >    bookrate.
> >
> > Be very careful - USPS is getting VERY strict about the use of Media
> > Rate and Printed Bound Matter Rate. Most people use Media Rate for
> > any printed matter, but by law, any document that shows even a hint
> > of advertising or personal correspondence, even if from a 50 year
> > old catalog from a firm that no longer exists and written by someone
> > now dead, can NOT go Media Rate. Period. No Slack.
> 
> Software is included in the Media Rate.
> 
> > I got this lecture just yesterday from the postguy in the Post
> > Office. He said not to abuse Media Rate, or it will go away.
> 
> Not that this is the proper place to discuss this (famous last words)
> but I don't udnerstand the premise behind that rate anyway.  If it
> costs $X to move item K of weight W from point A to point B, why
> should it be any different to move item J of weight V instead?
> 

The 'Media Rate' for books and publications, that prohibits advertising,
is to promote the cheap shipment of books.  For libraries and to promote
reading and literacy.  It's a form of subsidized shipping.  'For the
greater good' and all that.