How to ship a $1000 card
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USPS registered mail is what I would use if you do not have other insurance coverage. Very safe to send this way as it is signed for every step of the way. Will cost around $20 give or take a couple of dollars and probably closer to $30 give or take if you insure it with USPS.
When sending in grading orders to PSA, it is pretty typical that the boxes have contents' values at several thousands of dollars. How do most of us send those?
Registered is my choice as insurance is cheaper with this service and you can insure for quite a bit. Thats how I send expensive orders to PSA as well.
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FedEx or UPS are better than USPS right now. I have cards that are stuck at distribution centers due to “reorganization” of resources. I have about 10 high dollar cards floating around in the system. Coming on 3 weeks for one of them. Letters seem to be moving fine but barcode labels are taking forever.
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Definitively Registered USPS mail. It wouldn't hurt to add restricted delivery (if that's not included)
This is what I do for $1k cards:
I purchase a Medium Flat Rate Box, fully insured, and print two labels. I box the card in a Small Flat Rate box and adhere a label. I then put that into a Medium Flat Rate box with packing peanuts. This way, if the box gets run over by a car, not only will the card survive but the Small Flat Rate box will survive as well and it will have the label so it can just keep going and get to its destination.
I would go UPS overnight if the card was worth significantly more.
Arthur
I labeled and packaged a card twice on sending a 3k card to Australia like Reggie above........
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Yesterday I finally received a crap load of delayed packages . All were sent USPS Priority Mail. My stuff from the east coast took a little more than 2 weeks. The west coast stuff took just over a weeks.
Anything that went through Chicago was the worst. My 1985 Topps Tiffany Roger Clemens took just over 3 weeks. I'm still waiting on a couple other cards that were mailed around the same time. Everything is showing up but they are delayed.
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I took 3 weeks to receive my cards from Los Angelas, CA to Maryland. Utterly ridiculous at how slow the USPS is.
Patrick
I sold a card for 6k earlier this year, double boxed it and used USPS registered mail with signature confirmation. Very slow, very expensive ($40) but very safe.
I have often thought that if I ever sell anything in excess of 10k, I would consider flying and hand delivering.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I just shipped one to Atlanta from Arizona Priority Registered Insured. Got to Atlanta in about 4 days and then went into limbo for over a week. The buyer opened a case, and the card got to him about 3 days later. On the other hand, First Class Insured seems to get there in 2 to 3 days.
Since it seems the OP has the answer and we're just complaining about USPS now, four days circling around Jersey, some of the tracking these days is comical ...
Aug 17, 2020
3:22pm
PROCESSED THROUGH USPS FACILITY
KEARNY, NJ 07099
Aug 16, 2020
8:34pm
PROCESSED THROUGH USPS FACILITY
KEARNY, NJ 07099
Aug 15, 2020
12:00am
In Transit, Arriving On Time
Aug 13, 2020
6:06pm
PROCESSED THROUGH USPS FACILITY
TETERBORO, NJ 07699
Aug 13, 2020
6:06pm
Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
TETERBORO NJ DISTRIBUTION CENTER
Aug 13, 2020
4:51pm
ORIGIN ACCEPTANCE
CLIFTON, NJ 07014
Aug 13, 2020
4:51pm
Accepted at USPS Origin Facility
CLIFTON, NJ 07014
The interesting part of sending USPS insured is that you aren't guaranteed to be covered for your loss.
Let's say you pull some sweet card from a pack or a bunch of nice cards and send them to PSA for grading, doesn't matter what you insure them for, USPS will deny the claim unless you have a receipt for each card. Would suck to pull a $5k card from a pack, insure it for that amount then the post office deny your claim because you don't have a receipt that you paid that much for it.
How do I know this.......experience!
I have heard this in the past. I'm no lawyer, but isn't that fraud?
They charge you based on a declared value of an item. They then lose/damage the item and refuse to pay?
Shouldn't matter if the item is worth what you say it is, they charge you more for your higher claimed value.
I agree 100% Joe.
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
I'm glad to hear someone else feels the same.
Sometimes I just feel a bit confused at how things are being done. I know my father would have felt the same way.
USPS is struggling. I checked my tracking on a package recently and it came up "insufficient address, returning to sender" and it showed up in my box a day later with no issue with the address. WTF?