POST OFFICE Clerk telling me I cannot ship VHS as media any longer
I have been shipping media mail through the post office for 25 years. I have this one Clerk at the post office that tells me that VHS is no longer considered media mail unless it’s an educational video. She refuses to let me send it that way. Have any other sellers experience this problem?
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eastlaneave
Mentor3 weeks ago@engineerusaf
Blank media (blank tapes) are not media mail.
Recorded movies, etc are Media Mail
If it's the movies you recently sold, I would go to a different post office. They are media mail.
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Some items that qualify for Media Mail
- Books (of at least 8 pages)
- Music CDs, cassettes, albums
- VHS/DVD movies
Some items that don't qualify
Comics
Magazines
Newspapers
Yearbooks
Catalogs
Sewing patterns
Software
Video games
Blank media
Anything with advertising, even decades-old ads, doesn't qualify for Media Mail. The USPS has very strict rules.
https://liteblue.usps.gov/news/link/2013/04apr/Media-Mail-Guidelines.htm
-- Here are webpages where you will be able to find more information about media mail:
and
https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm
and
https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/173.htm#ep1113500