Regards,
Never shipped this type of material before but lets take a look.
Probably would be better to divide "g" into individual numbered items so they can be referred to by number.
Probably easier to refer to pictures by number also.
- Printed educational reference charts designed to instruct or train individuals for improving or developing their capabilities.
- Each chart must be a single printed sheet of information designed for educational reference. The information on the chart, which may be printed on one or both sides of the sheet, must be conveyed primarily by graphs, diagrams, tables, or other nonnarrative matter.
- An educational reference chart is normally but not necessarily devoted to one subject.
- A chart on which the information isconveyed primarily by textual matter in a narrative form does not qualify as a printed educational reference chart for mailing at the Media Mail prices even if it includes graphs, diagrams, or tables.
- Examples of qualifying chartsinclude maps produced primarily for educational reference, tables of mathematical or scientific equations, noun declensions or verb conjugations used in the study of languages, periodic table of elements, botanical or zoological tables, and other tables used in the study of science.
#2 - That says that each chart must primarily use nonnarrative content. Multiple cards you show have a high degree of narrative content.
#4 - That says any chart that uses a high degree of narrative content is not allowed. A single such card included in the box would invalidate it for Media Mail.
That link is to a web page from 2013 and it refers to a single individual customer support case with its own set of circumstances which may or may not be exactly the same as the OP.
Searching Google specifically for Customer Support Ruling # PS 017 we find a 2014 update.
https://pe.usps.com/text/csr/PS-017.htm
Customer Support Ruling
Objective Test Materials – Media Mail
UPDATED June 2014
PS-017 (273.3.1)
This CSR discusses the eligibility of objective test materials at Media Mail prices.
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) 273.3.1*, provides that printed objective test materials and their accessories used by or on behalf of educational institutions to test ability, aptitude, with or without answers, test scores, or identifying information recorded thereon in writing or by mark, may be mailed at the Media Mail prices.
Objective tests are composed of test questions which may each be answered with only one correct or right answer and with respect to the grading of the answers to such questions, no two reasonable people could differ on the results. The answers to the questions in such tests are usually in the form of true/false or multiple choice and scoring is often done by using a scoring key.
Accessories to objective test materials include articles such as answer sheets, scoring keys, directions how to take the test, pencils and similar devices, which are mechanically or procedurally necessary to take the tests and permit central scoring. These items are acceptable at the Media Mail prices only when mailed with the actual printed objective test materials to which they relate.
*See also DMM 173.4.
Sherry Suggs
Manager
Mailing Standards
Headquarters, US Postal Service
Washington DC 20260-3436
The above refers to DMM 173.4, whch takes us back to G.
https://pe.usps.com/Archive/PDF/DMMArchive20150531/173.pdf
g. Printed educational reference charts designed to instruct or train individuals for improving or developing their capabilities. Each chart must be a single printed sheet of information designed for educational reference. The information on the chart, which may be printed on one or both sides of the sheet, must be conveyed primarily by graphs, diagrams, tables, or other nonnarrative matter. An educational reference chart is normally but not necessarily devoted to one subject. A chart on which the information is conveyed primarily by textual matter in a narrative form does not qualify as a printed educational reference chart for mailing at the Media Mail prices even if it includes graphs, diagrams, or tables. Examples of qualifying charts include maps produced primarily for educational reference, tables of mathematical or scientific equations, noun declensions or verb conjugations used in the study of languages, periodic table of elements, botanical or zoological tables, and other tables used in the study of science.
These clearly do not qualify under g due to narrative content.
If you search for the ISBN on that box it comes up as a hard cover book
https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/0697097315
A legacy listing on Amazon lists as a hard cover but then states in the description its cards.
Now its starting to feel like an episode of the Twilight Zone.
@ohm_eater First, Media Mail counter rate and online rate is the same. You can always simply pay at the counter then add the Tracking number on your computer when you get back home. There will always be a few gray areas with things and I noticed some posters say it qualifies for Media Mail and others say it doesn't. Did you know that old 12" vinyl LP records qualify as Media Mail? Yep, I asked at the post office three years ago even though your un-expanded item 3 (if memory serves) does not come right out and say LP records.
