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Posted 10/05/2010   10:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Donna Merkle to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
This is becoming more complicated than I had thought. I should never let my mind wander late at night...lol

As a last ditch attempt let me contact contact my post office and ask about magazines and media mail. Not that I don't take what you said for face value KirkS, but there must be a way around this.

The Geo Caching sounds interesting Edwin, but I think that might be making it more complicated than it needs to be. Anyway, there's a way that you can send something media mail and get a tracking number for it through the post office.

Wt, I don't think that it would be a copy write infringement if something is forwarded or shared in e-mail. I belonged to an association that had a subscription to a business journal online. Everyone had the password and just used it when they wanted to read it online.

Donna
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Posted 10/05/2010   11:17 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add laswabbie to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I read the article about the crackdown and inspection of media mail just the other day and there doesn't seem to be any way around it. One might get lucky and not get inspected, but with the USPS looking for a dime anywhere they can find it I would doubt it.
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Posted 10/06/2010   12:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add modern_who to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
If matter that doesn't qualify as media mail is found, it will be uprated to parcel post and the difference, supposedly, collected from the recipient.

Also, since we are on the subject, if you reverse the free USPS Priority Mail boxes to use for a different class of mail and are caught, the parcel will be uprated to Priority Mail and, again, the difference supposedly collected from the recipient.
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Posted 10/06/2010   04:19 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I have an idea to start this off, just to see if there is any interest.
I have a 75th anniversary copy of the UK's Stamp Magazine. It is an excellent read at the best of times but this copy was superb. I posted pics somewhere I believe and intended to use it as a competition prize.
Together with the magazine was a reprint of the first copy which is quite amazing reading. All those ads from 1934 and all the info, reprinted exactly as it was. The two magazines are unopened in a sealed pack.
Here's the deal. Those in the USA,Canada or anywhere else that are interested sign up on this thread. I will send it to someone on the list in one of those countries. When that person has finished with it, he/she can send it on to someone else IN THE SAME COUNTRY [to cut down on postage costs]. When that country has been exhausted of interested parties it will be sent to another country on the list and the same will happen there. If someone who is willing to use gluestick postage and has some to spare, they should speak up as they will be put last on that countries list because it will cost more to go overseas. [With me so far?]

I will draw lots somehow, hopefully with board involvment, to determine who will be the last 'player', because the last one will get the chnace to keep it...I do not want it back.

As an extra little oddity, and to give a few unsuspecting folk a good laugh, I will enclose an October edition of the British Philatelic Bulletin which should be similarly passed on.

If anyone is interested, just holler on this post.


The offer of this 'Round Robin' type magazine venture is still open.
I have just checked the unopened packet and can see that there are one or two editions of dealers lists making it very heavy. I can open it and take these out and let you know how much it weighs and then costs can be determined to see if it is worthwhile. I am sure it will be OK.

Anyway the offer is there.

Londonbus1
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Posted 10/06/2010   04:39 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Without all the extras [dealers lists] the packet would weigh about 600gr. I tried it with the same magazines only opened. The packet in question still remains sealed.

To send this packet to the USA [for example] would cost me a shade under $5.
To send it to another location here would cost $2.30
If I was in the UK and wanted to send it to another location within the UK it would cost £1.87 first class and £1.56 second class.
For me to send this packet top Canada,UK or anywhere in Europe would cost me much less.

These prices are just comparisons.
I will now go to check the USA-USA prices.

Londonbus1
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Edited by Londonbus1 - 10/06/2010 04:57 am
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Posted 10/06/2010   04:55 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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I will now go to check the USA-USA prices.





How can it be that I can send something weighing 650 grammes to the USA [one of the most expensive destinations from here] for under $5. and yet it costs the same to send the same item from New York to Florida !

Yikes !
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Edited by Londonbus1 - 10/06/2010 04:59 am
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Posted 10/06/2010   06:48 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Triggersmob to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
650g from Australia to Israel or USA = AUD$22
To the United Kingdom = AUD$27.25

Steve
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Posted 10/06/2010   10:09 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Londonbus1 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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650g from Australia to Israel or USA = AUD$22




That is gross !
It costs half that to send the same weight from here to Oz.

There is no justice is there.

Looks like my magazine is staying put.
If anyone wants it, I will deliver it personally during my next holiday !

Londonbus1
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Posted 10/07/2010   01:12 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Donna Merkle to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Okay, here's the skinny. In talking, by phone, to a postal customer service worker, I was told that if I was to ship the magazines flat rate @ $8.95 I could send them anywhere in the U.S. I would just have to make sure that they fit in the box. Magazines anywhere else weren't allowed because of advertising...that we knew.

I had told her that in researching the internet, I found a forum (actually a comic book forum) that was able to send the comic books and that they were actually magazines. She said that because they are referred to as comic books that was how they were able to do it. Now, where does that make sense?

So, unless all the stamp magazines start referring to themselves as stamp books, we are up fertilizer's creek without a paddle. It was a nice idea and like I said, I should never come up with an idea late at night.

Donna
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