Comment Game and DVD distinction experience (Score 1) 147
Back when media like movies were heavier than a CD/DVD, the Post Office offered a service called Media Mail, that was a reduced rate I think originally for library-type materials, perhaps for the promotion of education or such, and I sold many movies on eBay and shipped them this way. Video game cartridges would never be allowed under this, despite obviously being media, and I would always get turned down and be forced to ship video games with regular postal rates.
When video games eventually turned into actual digital video discs, literally written onto a DVD despite not being a "DVD" in the sense of watchable on a DVD player, I also got turned down from mailing them as Media Mail because I didn't say "DVD" in the sense of a movie, so I just started saying DVD instead of video game, because the actual media itself is the same disc with different media on it.
For some reason the USPS insists on differentiating between movie DVDs and video game DVDs. I soon discovered however, that it was actually cheaper and faster to mail such a lightweight disc First Class instead of the typically-slower Media Mail way, and the distinction became largely irrelevant for me, but it appears the USPS has still not learned anything since those days!
When video games eventually turned into actual digital video discs, literally written onto a DVD despite not being a "DVD" in the sense of watchable on a DVD player, I also got turned down from mailing them as Media Mail because I didn't say "DVD" in the sense of a movie, so I just started saying DVD instead of video game, because the actual media itself is the same disc with different media on it.
For some reason the USPS insists on differentiating between movie DVDs and video game DVDs. I soon discovered however, that it was actually cheaper and faster to mail such a lightweight disc First Class instead of the typically-slower Media Mail way, and the distinction became largely irrelevant for me, but it appears the USPS has still not learned anything since those days!
