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Does anyone know if I can mail a card in one of these clear boxes alone? And can anyone give me info or an educated guess on postage? Do you have to pay, like, 1st class postage on a box? And another question...if I mail just a stack of cards & envelopes to a charity group...do cards mailed like that count as media? Thanx for the benefit of your experience!
The postal rates can be very confusing, and even worse, seem to vary from branch to branch, and according to which clerk you get!
I've tried looking up things like this on the USPS website, but found it confusing also.
I think your best bet would be to take a sample box, with the card inside, to your local PO and get them to tell you what it would cost to mail it. My guess would be it would go as a lst class package, and cost about $3.50.
Also, the same advice goes for the media mail question.
__________________ Bugga in OK
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Last edited by buggainok; 03-30-2018 at 01:46 PM..
Cards and envelopes do not qualify as Media. My postal clerk explained it one time in simple terms-if it is something you could check out from the library, it qualifies for Media rates.
Cards and envelopes do not qualify as Media. My postal clerk explained it one time in simple terms-if it is something you could check out from the library, it qualifies for Media rates.
Thanks - that's simple and makes sense.
__________________ Bugga in OK
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama
Just a word of warning on the media mail thing - they are VERY particular about what you are claiming as media. I shipped a box of empty binders from New York to Las Vegas when we moved ($177 worth). The clerk thought that it could go media so I sent it that way. It made it as far as a distribution center in California and was never seen again. After multiple communications in which the possibility of it being sent incorrectly was raised (but no progress made) they considered my claim "resolved", even though I never got my package or a refund or anything (it was insured). They even deleted the tracking number, so there is no hope at all of recovering it.
If you send BOOKS, then send smaller quantities in smaller boxes. When four boxes of books failed to make it to their destination, the information I got was that the boxes were probably too heavy and split open - end of story. No books, no apology, nothing. They did give me a refund for the shipping cost, but that wasn't really what I wanted. I'd like to have my grandmother's primers back (Sunbonnet Babies and Overall Boys). Lesson learned...
Sue, if you insured the binders for their full value of 177 and kept your insurance slip you can certainly get your money back. They don't delete tracking numbers. You can start an online insurance claim on usps.com and you don't need your tracking number. Your insurance number became the tracking number.
Sue, if you insured the binders for their full value of 177 and kept your insurance slip you can certainly get your money back. They don't delete tracking numbers. You can start an online insurance claim on usps.com and you don't need your tracking number. Your insurance number became the tracking number.
Thanks for that info. It's been well over a year now, so I'm not sure if I can even locate the receipt - if I even kept it. After three or four months of getting nowhere, I just sort of gave up. Ah well...
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