book rate

Cheap text shipping

Book rate is a discounted postal rate for mailing books and other educational materials.

The term comes from an era when postal services offered special low rates to encourage the circulation of printed matter.

Packages sent book rate travel more slowly than first-class mail: I shipped the textbooks book rate to save money.

Also called media mail in current U.S. postal terminology.

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library · paperback · parcel · USPS · slow · cheap · discount · bulk · postal · bulk mail · package · printed matter · reading material · fourth class · educational · bound · pages · mailing

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shipping speed and priority

book ratepriority mail

Upgraded postal delivery speed

express mail · overnight shipping · expedited shipping · first-class mail · next-day delivery

cost level

book ratepremium rate

Elevated fee for calls

Family

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