[pct-l] Media mail?

[Carl Siechert]

And in my experience (also sending actual media via media mail), Media Mail
takes much longer than Priority Mail or even Parcel Post. Three weeks is
typical, versus 2-4 days for Priority Mail or about a week for parcel post.
(Maybe it's the time they take to open and inspect some of them!)

If you're looking for cheap, use Parcel Post, which has the extra benefit of
being legitimate. (And, as covered in other threads, that's the one to use
if you're sending fuel.) Another alternative for the big packages you're
talking about sending to your friend: UPS Ground. Five days or less from
anywhere in the US to California, and for packages more than about 5 pounds,
it's usually cheaper than Parcel Post.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:19 AM, James Burns <jfburns at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my experience (sending actual media via media mail) they tend to open
> some subset of the boxes to verify them.
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 08:19, Dan Africk <danstheman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone tried mailing resupply items via media mail? I'm preparing to
> > send all of my food out to California from the east coast, which is of
> > course very expensive, and media mail has the same size and weight limits
> > but is less than half the price. I'm not talking about sending each
> > individual resupply package via media mail, just the big boxes that will
> go
> > to the person who will be sending those packages.
>