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Agreement the Media Mail service nomenclature

Endicia Customer Email Newsletter Media Mail is a toll-effective option for those who send books, recorded music and other media materials in bulk through the U.South. Postal Service. But, in social club to avoid being charged with mail fraud, be sure you empathise exactly what Media Mail is, and when y'all tin can and cannot use it.

So, what is Media Mail?

The Mail created Media Mail service back in 1938 every bit a less expensive style to mail service books – it was originally designed to encourage the menstruum of educational materials through the mail. Over the years, as technology developed, and the means of distributing data changed, the Media Mail nomenclature has been revised to include materials such as films and reckoner media.

While Media Mail service takes a little longer than First-Form Mail to arrive at its destination, information technology is offered at a much lower rate – making it a very bonny option. Merely, because the prices are then low, the Postal Service has instituted strict restrictions on what does and does non authorize as Media Mail service.

And, proceed in heed that the U.S. Mail has the right to inspect all items that are sent through the Media Post classification. Anyone who sends a not-approved item through Media Mail runs the take a chance of being charged with mail fraud!

What qualifies as Media Mail?

Media Mail consists of the post-obit:

Bound books containing at least eight pages and NO advertizing*
Printed educational material used for testing
Printed educational reference charts designed to instruct or railroad train individuals (i.e.: periodic table of elements, botanical or zoological tables, or tables of mathematical or scientific equations)
- see below for restrictions
Printed sail music – either bound or in canvass form
Manuscripts
Computer readable media including DVDs, CDs, video tapes
- see below for non-allowed calculator readable media
xvi-mm or narrower film that is in concluding form for viewing
- Can include related catalogs of the films
  - catalog must exist at least 24 pages long with 22 of the pages being printed
Sound recordings and related guides or scripts
- sound recordings include video recordings and player pianoforte rolls
Medical information to exist distributed to doctors, hospitals, medical schools and medical students (can be loose-leaf pages and in binders)

What is not considered Media Postal service?

Periodicals such as magazines and newspapers
Photographs, photo albums and pictures
Printed teaching reference charts that incorporate mostly text (even if information technology includes graphs, diagrams or tables)
Computer readable media including portable hard drives, thumb drives, wink drives, jump-drives, and USB drives
Films and moving picture catalogs sent to or from commercial theaters
Trading cards of any blazon (i.east.: baseball cards)
Electronic equipment such as computers, stereos and CD players
Vesture or other merchandise
Video games
Binders
- with the exception of those containing loose-foliage pages of medical data to be distributed to doctors, hospitals, medical schools and medical students

*Notes:

Advertising refers to paid advert and the publishers' own advertising in display, classified or editorial style.
Books shipped every bit Media Mail service may contain:
- either one envelope or one postcard that is bound into the volume
- 1 order grade that is jump into the pages of books (in add-on to the 1 envelope or postcard)
- announcements that include ordering instructions. The announcements must exist about books and not contain any advertising

For more data on Media Mail, visit the USPS website at http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/173.htm

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