February 17, 2010 Bible Foundation PO Box 908 Newberg, OR 97132 (503) 538-4897 www.bf.org bf@bf.org Dear Postmaster, Many individuals and organizations throughout the USA donate reading matter to Bible Foundation and mail it to us using the LIBRARY RATE as authorized in the Domestic Mail Manual Section 483, Part 2.3. Occasionally, a post office is unfamiliar with the regulation and refuses to allow our donors (who receive no benefit from the donation) to mail under it. USPS webpage http://pe.usps.gov/search/jsp/search/vv_docread. jsp?k2dockey=http%3A%2F%2Fpe.usps.com% 2Ftext%2Fdmm300%2F483.htm% 40PE_DMM300_HTML_5&serverSpec =56.0.145.56:9920&QueryParser=Simple&querytext =%28483%29&dtype=2#hit0 has the regulation. An excerpt from it is to the right. Bible Foundation is a qualified nonprofit religious organization and is dependent on many donors to help many people throughout the world. Please honor this postal regulation and allow our donors to continue to help. Thank you. Sincerely, Bible Foundation

400 Commercial Parcels 480 Library Mail 483 Prices and Eligibility 1.0 Library Mail Prices and Fees 2.0 Content Standards for Library Mail Parcels 2.1 General Mailable matter meeting one of the specific eligibility standards in 2.3 or 2.4, as applicable, and that is neither mailed or required to be mailed as First-Class Mail nor entered as Periodicals, may be mailed as Library Mail. 2.2 Sender and Recipient Qualifications Each piece must show in the address or return address the name of a school, college, university, public library, museum, or herbarium or the name of a nonprofit religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic (charitable), agricultural, labor, veterans, or fraternal organization or association. For Library Mail standards, these nonprofit organizations are defined in 703.1.0. 2.3 Content Standards for Mailings Between Entities The items described in this section may be mailed at the Library Mail price when sent between: (1) schools, colleges, universities, public libraries, museums, and herbariums and nonprofit religious, educational, scientific, philanthropic (charitable), agricultural, labor, veterans, and fraternal organizations or associations; (2) any such institution, organization, or association and an individual who has no financial interest in the sale, promotion, or distribution of the materials; or (3) any such institution, organization, or association and a publisher, if such institution, organization, or association has placed an order to buy such materials for delivery to itself: a. Books, consisting wholly of reading matter, scholarly bibliography, or reading matter with incidental blank spaces for notations and containing no advertising, except for incidental announcements of books. b. Printed music, whether in bound or sheet form. c. Bound volumes of academic theses, whether in typewritten or duplicated form. d. Periodicals, whether bound or unbound. e. Sound recordings. f. Other library materials in printed, duplicated, or photographic form or in the form of unpublished manuscripts. g. Museum materials, specimens, collections, teaching aids, printed matter, and interpretive materials for informing and furthering the educational work and interests of museums and herbariums.