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Wondered that myself, so I did a search. http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=112050
They mostly say to pay more and use Priority Mail.
Wondered that myself, so I did a search. http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=112050
I've had tarot deck and book sets sent to me via Media Mail, but my postman has told me that decks do not qualify. Basically it's a crap-shoot if you use it to send decks.
Um, I just found out the USPS rifles through media mail, meaning they have the authority to open any packages they feel like to see if what's in there "qualifies" as media mail.
Technically, I think a pack of tarot cards in a deck and book set qualifies as media mail. Plus, any tarot pack with an LWB technically is a deck and book set. Furthermore, I think it could be argued that tarot cards in general sans LWB or full blown companion book are "educational" materials.
Anyone else have thoughts on this topic?
They routinely rifle through media mail because that service is so often abused by eBay shippers and others trying to get a cheaper price.
I just ship priority, I don't try to cheat the system. Sure you can argue that tarot is educational, but honestly we're not buying and trading tarot decks to educate - we're hobbyists and collectors.
Jeannette from tarotgarden posted years ago that decks alone do NOT qualify and that they have been told this VERY firmly several times when they tried to get a ruling that would allow them. But sets do.
http://www.tarotforum.net/showpost.php?p=611743&postcount=51