{"id":1187,"date":"2015-06-09T11:31:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T18:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/mail\/?page_id=1187"},"modified":"2021-11-19T10:54:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T18:54:42","slug":"library-and-media-mail","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/home\/domestic-mail\/united-states-postal-service-usps\/library-and-media-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"Library and Media Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.22&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.25&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; custom_padding__hover=&#8221;|||&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.27.4&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left\">Library and Media Mail<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Media Mail\u00ae and Library Mail Rate Services have special eligibility requirements and because of this are not sealed against postal inspection. Plainly stated, by taking advantage of the discounted rate of mailing you&#8217;re giving the USPS permission to open and inspect the contents of your parcel should they have any reason to believe that your shipment does not qualify for the discount. These classes are considered to be second class mail, so there is no guaranteed date of delivery available for shipments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Detailed rules for Media and Library Rate mail can be found here in the <span style=\"color: #800080\"><a style=\"color: #800080\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pe.usps.com\/text\/dmm300\/173.htm#1113613\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DMM Prices and Eligibility section<\/a><\/span> or you may read the less verbose interpretation below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #000000;text-decoration: underline\">Media Mail\u00ae Service<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Prices for Media Mail<span>\u00ae<\/span> start at <strong>$3.19<\/strong>\u00a0and are based on the weight of the shipment regardless of destination.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Shipments that qualify for Media Mail\u00ae service include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Books with at least 8 pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sound and video recordings like CDs and DVDs<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Playscripts and manuscripts for books, periodicals and music<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Printed sheet music<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such media<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">16 millimeter or narrower width films<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Printed objective test materials and accessories<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Printed educational reference charts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information for distribution to doctors, hospitals, medical schools and medical students<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span><span style=\"color: #000000\">Media Mail\u00ae shipments may not contain advertising except for incidental announcements for other books and sound recordings.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"color: #000000\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Library Mail Service<\/span><\/strong><br \/><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Starting at <strong>$3.03<\/strong>, Library Mail prices are based on the weight of the piece without regard to destination.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Each piece must come from a school, college, university, public library, museum, or herbarium or the name of a nonprofit religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic (charitable), agricultural, labor, veterans, or fraternal organization or association and be noted in the return address. Materials that qualify for this classification include:<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Books with no advertising that contain mostly non-blank pages (so, not empty journals)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Printed music, bound or individual sheets<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Bound volumes of academic theses<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Periodicals, bound or unbound<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Sound recordings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">Other library materials in printed, duplicated or photographic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">16-millimeter or narrower width films, filmstrips, transparencies, slides and microfilms in final form for viewing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">Simply put, Library Mail is for libraries and institutions to send books and materials to each other in a cost effective manner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library and Media Mail Media Mail\u00ae and Library Mail&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"featured_media":0,"parent":890,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">Library and Media Mail<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Media Mail\u00ae and Library Mail Rate Services have special eligibility requirements and because of this are not sealed against postal inspection. Plainly stated, by taking advantage of the discounted rate of mailing you're giving the USPS permission to open and inspect the contents of your parcel should they have any reason to believe that your shipment does not qualify for the discount. These classes are considered to be second class mail, so there is no guaranteed date of delivery available for shipments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Detailed rules for Media and Library Rate mail can be found here in the <span style=\"color: #800080;\"><a style=\"color: #800080;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pe.usps.com\/text\/dmm300\/173.htm#1113613\" rel=\"noopener\">DMM Prices and Eligibility section<\/a><\/span> or you may read the less verbose interpretation below.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\">Media Mail\u00ae Service<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Prices for Media Mail<span>\u00ae<\/span> start at <strong>$2.72<\/strong> and are based on the weight of the shipment regardless of destination.\n<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Shipments that qualify for Media Mail\u00ae service include:<\/span>\n<ul>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Books with at least 8 pages<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sound and video recordings like CDs and DVDs<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Playscripts and manuscripts for books, periodicals and music<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Printed sheet music<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Computer-readable media containing prerecorded information and guides or scripts prepared solely for use with such media<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">16 millimeter or narrower width films<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Printed objective test materials and accessories<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Printed educational reference charts<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Loose-leaf pages and their binders consisting of medical information for distribution to doctors, hospitals, medical schools and medical students<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Media Mail\u00ae shipments may not contain advertising except for incidental announcements for other books and sound recordings.<\/span><\/span>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Library Mail Service<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Starting at <strong>$2.56<\/strong>, Library Mail prices are based on the weight of the piece without regard to destination.\n<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Each piece must come from a school, college, university, public library, museum, or herbarium or the name of a nonprofit religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic (charitable), agricultural, labor, veterans, or fraternal organization or association and be noted in the return address. Materials that qualify for this classification include:\n<\/span>\n<ul>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Books with no advertising that contain mostly non-blank pages (so, not empty journals)<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Printed music, bound or individual sheets<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Bound volumes of academic theses<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Periodicals, bound or unbound<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sound recordings<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Other library materials in printed, duplicated or photographic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts<\/span><\/li>\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">16-millimeter or narrower width films, filmstrips, transparencies, slides and microfilms in final form for viewing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Simply put, Library Mail is for libraries and institutions to send books and materials to each other in a cost effective manner.\u00a0<\/span>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1187","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1187\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/mail\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}