08-20-2017 08:30 AM
I know publications with advertising cannot be shipped Media Mail.
But are there exceptions?
I have a 1947 magazine which of course has many advertisements in it.
But it's ridiculous to think that any of them could have meaning today.
Some are for products that don't even exist anymore (I saw one for Ipana toothpaste).
Does the USPS have Media Mail exceptions for this sort of thing?
08-20-2017 08:41 AM
08-20-2017 09:33 AM
No exceptions for old ads. USPS gets so many questions about this, they even included "Old magazines" as a specific category in the reference chart that they made for their own personnel:
https://liteblue.usps.gov/news/link/2013/04apr/Media-Mail-Guidelines.htm
08-20-2017 09:56 AM
08-20-2017 11:14 AM
@partial*eclipse wrote:No exceptions for old ads. USPS gets so many questions about this, they even included "Old magazines" as a specific category in the reference chart that they made for their own personnel:
https://liteblue.usps.gov/news/link/2013/04apr/Media-Mail-Guidelines.htm
Yep, I really like that link.
Thanks
08-20-2017 11:44 AM
08-20-2017 11:52 AM
True; even magazines with no ads (such as Highlights for Children or Prevention) aren't eligible for MM due to being periodicals. But the advertising-related disqualification is easier to explain!
08-23-2017 04:11 AM - edited 08-23-2017 04:15 AM
There's a new USPS Customer Support Ruling (CSR) issued January 2017 on eligible Media Mail exceptions, stating in part:
So those facsimile reprints of old Sears catalogs can be sent via Media Mail. An actual old Sears catalog cannot.