[il-talk] Help?

[Deborah Kent Stein]

Hi, Sharon,

Thanks for the info.  I spent quite some time on the phone with people from 
the post office Friday afternoon, trying to get to the bottom of this.  No 
one seemed to know of any recent changes.  They read me the regulation about 
international free matter, which says that "participants" must be U.S. 
citizens mailing from the States or from a U.S. territory.  It does not seem 
to specify whether the recipients must be U.S. citizens.  I have been 
mailing magazines to China and India for 20 years and have never been 
challenged, so I'm going to work on the premise that it's fine.

Debbie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "sharon howerton" <shrnhow at att.net>
To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: [il-talk] Help?


> Actually, I work for Hadley and we send international mail free matter all 
> the time. We were told it now goes airmail. One of our faculty said she 
> sent something to a student in New Zealand and it got there in about four 
> days. Some of our faculty, if memory serves, had problems with this when 
> going to the post office, but we sent from Hadley Central and the 
> Winnnetka post office all the time. Trust me, if this wasn't correct, our 
> mail person would never let it slide. He is very good about that sort of 
> thing and would keep us who work outside of the actual school updated on 
> the free matter privilege.
> Sharon
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817 at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 2:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [il-talk] Help?
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>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> The Free Matter privilege is an international agreement.  I believe the 
>> only exception for some weird reason is New Zealand.  Braille materials 
>> and special equipment such as 4-track tape players are covered. 
>> Commercial audiobooks might be questionable, so check with your post 
>> office.
>>
>> Debbie
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Don Gillmore" <don.gillmore at comcast.net>
>> To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 8:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [il-talk] Help?
>>
>>
>>> Edwin, I think that you can only send , free mater items in the U.S. 
>>> only. Also I don't believe that commercial audio books qualify as free 
>>> matter items.
>>>
>>> Don Gillmore
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Edwin" <conibodyworks at sprintpcs.com>
>>> To: "NFB of Illinois Mailing List" <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:31 AM
>>> Subject: [il-talk] Help?
>>>
>>>
>>>> Can I send someone some audio books in Switzerland, free matter for the 
>>>> blind?
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