Cleaning out storage room FREE ITEMS

[Scott Stevens]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:38:01 -0700 (PDT)
"Dwight K. Elvey" <dwight.elvey at amd.com> wrote:

> >From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com>
> >
> >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.
> >
> ---snip---
> 
> Hi
>  It is interesting that even a note attached to a pile
> of documents can cause it to fail the media rate rule.
> I have a stack, about 15 lbs, of copies that I wanted
> to send and I had a note on top that said" Here are the
> items you requested" or something similar. The postal
> fellow saw that and was going to reject the media rate
> based on that. I just removed the note.
>  It is funny that the note contained nothing more than
> what an invoice would have. I guess rules are rules.
> Dwight
> 

Maybe it isn't possible anymore, but I know that it used to be
acceptable to add the First Class postage that would be sufficient to
cover the note, in addition to the Media Rate shipping amount.  This was
at least a decade or more ago, and I've never seen it in writing.

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