Why use bubble mailers?

ajia · August 30, 2004 3:12AM

This is why......

ms70 · August 30, 2004 3:14AM

Not good.

clackamas · August 30, 2004 3:17AM

I hope that was not my coin. I use USPS boxes and wrap the coins inside. I figure if a box gets crunched with padding then there was not much I could have done.

Brian

ajia · August 30, 2004 3:31AM

Let's just say a letter folded around the slab inside a normal envelope is not enough protection!

earlwbollinger · August 30, 2004 3:35AM

I agree it should have been mailed better, the postal machines can really eat stuff up.
I once had a non-coin package in a carboard mailler get stuck in a postal sorting machine, it skid marks, and
long worn areas on the package. I think it was jammed in the machine for several minutes until they cleared the jam.
Can you not send that off to PCGS to get it reslabbed?

nwcs · August 30, 2004 3:41AM

bubble mailers won't go through the sorting stuff so they get hand sorted. Already a step up.

ajia · August 30, 2004 3:49AM

This was a trade, coin not worth reholdering (IMO).
But it was insured!
Does the P.O. insure that the item does not get damaged or just that it arrives to it's destination.
I know they ask me if an item is fragile, parrishable.......I guess a slab is fragile!

relayer · August 30, 2004 3:51AM

This one was in a bubble mailer wrapped in bubble wrap for double bubble protection

ziggy29 · August 30, 2004 4:01AM

<< <i>This was a trade, coin not worth reholdering (IMO).
But it was insured!
Does the P.O. insure that the item does not get damaged or just that it arrives to it's destination.
I know they ask me if an item is fragile, parrishable.......I guess a slab is fragile! >>

USPS insurance covers loss or damage. But in this case, the damage wouldn't be considered the value of the item, because if the coin itself was undamaged while the slab was damaged, at most your "loss" from the breakage was the cost of the slabbing. So yes, damage is covered, too, but unless the coin was damaged enough that its market value is irreparably diminished, I'm not sure it would kick in for very much.

SDCollector · August 30, 2004 4:07AM

Looks like one of my crackouts

edsiajb · August 30, 2004 4:25AM

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<< <i>This was a trade, coin not worth reholdering (IMO).
But it was insured!
Does the P.O. insure that the item does not get damaged or just that it arrives to it's destination.
I know they ask me if an item is fragile, parrishable.......I guess a slab is fragile! >>

USPS insurance covers loss or damage. But in this case, the damage wouldn't be considered the value of the item, because if the coin itself was undamaged while the slab was damaged, at most your "loss" from the breakage was the cost of the slabbing. So yes, damage is covered, too, but unless the coin was damaged enough that its market value is irreparably diminished, I'm not sure it would kick in for very much. >>

Insurance won't cover this whatsoever because it was not packed according to USPS regulations.