An official notice by the USPS, explicitly stating comic books are not appropriate for media mail, is “utterly irrelevant” to whether comic books are appropriate for media mail?
Uhhhh, ok...sure...
So which do you believe, the DMM (USPS official as well, btw) or that link? Compound the clusterpoopy with the fact that your average USPS worker may not even have a clear understanding of it. I suppose you could say that the mere presence of ads (even decades out of date) eliminate comic books from MM. However, some postal employees will say that MM is fine for comics, some won't. Depends on who is working at any particular USPS branch on any given day. That's the real problem, ignorance of the rules and inconsistent enforcement which all leads to confusion and multiple threads about it on this board