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So I have some old GW catalogs and I want them out. I posted them here and Im only asking for the money to get them gone. I have someone who is intrested and they asked about media rate. The books do have an ISBN number on all three of them. I know someone here is an USPS employee.

Can they go media?

Thanks,

Jason

no. they are catlogs. they have over a certain % of advertisements. Media rate must only have a small % of ads.
I don't know the exact amount, but any catalog, due to it's nature can't go media rate.

Here are the exact requirements from the usps site. [emphasis added]

Only these items may be mailed at the Media Mail prices:
a. Books, including books issued to supplement other books, of at least eight
printed pages, consisting wholly of reading matter or scholarly bibliography, or
reading matter with incidental blank spaces for notations and containing no
advertising matter other than incidental announcements of books. Advertising
includes paid advertising and the publishers’ own advertising in display,
classified, or editorial style.

b. 16-millimeter or narrower width films, which must be positive prints in final form
for viewing, and catalogs of such films of 24 pages or more (at least 22 of which
are printed). Films and film catalogs sent to or from commercial theaters do not
qualify for the Media Mail price.
c. Printed music, whether in bound or sheet form.
d. Printed objective test materials and their accessories used by or on behalf of
educational institutions to test ability, aptitude, achievement, interests, and
other mental and personal qualities with or without answers, test scores, or
identifying information recorded thereon in writing or by mark.
e. Sound recordings, including incidental announcements of recordings and
guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such recordings. Video recordings
and player piano rolls are classified as sound recordings.
f. Playscripts and manuscripts for books, periodicals, and music.
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.
h. Loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information for
distribution to doctors, hospitals, medical schools, and medical students.
i. Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information and guides or
scripts prepared solely for use with such media.

ALSO:
Postal Inspection
Media Mail is not sealed against postal inspection. Regardless of physical closure,
the mailing of articles at Media Mail prices constitutes consent by the mailer to
postal inspection of the contents.

So that means it can be opened at anytime to ensure that it is only the correct material.