Marvelling at My Media Mailin' of the Mighty Mjolnir

Special Edition #2, I hardly knew ye.

  So, I sold some of my comics,  about 40 issues of The Mighty Thor on eBay. I learned several lessons from this particular transaction. First and foremost, I will never sell a group of comics at once again. I really lost my perceptual ass on these comics, and only netted about 22 bucks for all of them. Secondly, and this is the most frustrating, the post office doesn't consider comic books for the media mail rate because they are 'not educational' and 'contain advertising'. After a rather involved conversation with the postal supervisor who admitted that without comics he wouldn't have developed an interest in reading, and whether to refer to them instead of 'comic books', but rather 'kids magazines' that this particular parcel could be shipped media mail instead of regular or priority mail.
  How incredibly ridiculous I felt defending a piece of 'media' in the face of a bureaucratic policy change to save a few dollars where the USPS can. I know that they're up against the wall, in the face of all of the competition for delivery dollars, but seriously! Comic books are printed matter, and educational in some respects, and well, it's just silly. If you're going to split hairs and say that 'media' has to be 'educational' before you can ship it at this lesser rate, then for the sake of all that is natural and good in this world, call it something else instead of 'media mail'.

  It did feel good when they finally saw my point however. But, in the future, 'comic books' are 'kids magazines', remember this if you ever find yourself in a similar situation.