On 10/11/22 08:22, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > "Media mail" is the only practical option for those. > > And, blank, or user-written diskettes don't qualify; according to the > post-office, only commercially written disks.
Who says that the media has to be disks. Dig around for some dusty old paperbacks. AFAIK, the container does not have to match the contents. That being said, I've never been challenged on a metered (i.e. prepaid) Media Mail package. This reminds me of the times I was shipping a tuba via Amtrak Express in a large fiberglass case. There was a size exception in the shipping rules for musical instruments, but it didn't apply if one was shipping empty cases. So my customer scrounged around for a beat-up junked trumpet and put it in the tuba case. The stationmaster didn't have a problem with that... --Chuck
