PCGS Slab 0 Post Office 1

ibzman350

This arrive in the mail yesterday...some moron put the slab in an envelope and the Postal machines ate it up...

Just glad it wasn't a more valuable coin.

trozau

I guess we found another way of cracking slabs open.

lordmarcovan

Yup. Been there myself, once, with a relatively inexpensive Ike dollar that was not really worth reholdering. Snapped clean in two; almost looked deliberate. Not a single tear in the envelope.

Fortunately, in my case, the seller took it back gracefully.

Speaking of the post office, I have some German coins all packaged up for you, if it is any consolation. I might have even stuck you a gold-plated VA quarter in there, but I can't remember if I did or not. (Some folks I sent mail to recently got gold-plated quarters from their home states. Can't remember for sure if I did that with your package or not, but there is a pretty good bag of freebies headed your way, so take heart!)

Edit: package was still here on the desk so I reopened it to check. There wasn't a gold VA quarter in there, but now there is!

Should go out in the next day or two, hopefully.

Oh, and I used a bubble mailer.

rottnrog

I received a bubble wrapped slab from UPS that was covered with tire tracks and had a small tear. The broken slab was in it, but no coin!!!!

pontiacinf

what kind of envelope?...i use bubble ones all the time without problem?

ibzman350

Pont... a regular white envelope. the slab was wraped in the ebay receipt

Lord... I'm looking forward to the coins arrival

seanq

This is why I always pay the extra $.12 handling for non-machinable mail. On the USPS rate calculator, it's the choice marked "Envelope containing a rigid object". Even a Saf-T-Mailer can get caught in one of the machines. I haven't had a single envelope I've sent this way arrive damaged, but I have received several half-eaten envelopes with a $.37 stamp on them.


Sean Reynolds

Barry

The #000 bubble mailers require that 12 cents, as they are thicker than 1/4 inch, and are non-machineable (in theory, anyway).

Does anyone really know if you write FRAGILE or PLEASE HAND CANCEL if that really means anything? Does adding the extra 12 cents automatically route it out of the machine sorting line? Inquiring minds want to know...

XpipedreamR

I can't believe someone would stick a slab in a regular envelope. That's so cheap and stupid

nwcs

Has happened to me, too. PCGS was good about reholdering it for free.

airplanenut

I'd ask the seller to eat it--his fault for crappy packaging

LucyBop

PCGs slab 0 Post Office 2...

I sent a GEM 52s MS65FBL Frankie....... expensive coin here folks......

I used a bubblemailer plus I wrapped the slab in bubble wrap......

it was delievered with a big ol ugly crack in the slab........

the coin has since been reholdered, and it now has a new home......

Varlis

I've had an ANACS holder, packaged in a regular envelope, arrive cracked but not broken apart.

remumc

I always send my coins in a small priority mail box and have never had a problem. Sure it cost more, but it is worth more.

Regards,

Wayne

RonMan

I remember from a Postal Mailing class that I took a few years ago that if an envelope or package is turned 90 degrees from the way you would normally address and stamp it that it will not run through the PO's automated machines....does that make sense?

I've never tried it but sounds like a way to avoid the post offices slab cracker.

ibzman350

airplanenut... the seller (she) doesn't answer email... that makes me think that this has happened before, 98.5% feedback rating.. 98.2% after my feedback.

I hate being ignored

photog

One time after all the Anthrax hoopla a coin was totally "lost" by Fed Ex. After weeks of looking for it, and then writing it off, the package showed up... it had been RADIATED! The box was baked, that's the only way to describe it. The slab was warped and cooked as well.
Did anyone else have any RD (radiated!) coins in the last couple of years?

Conder101

I've always wanted one of those iradiated slabs but every time I hear about one and contact the person theve already cracked it out or sent it back in for reholdering.