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Is it true that you could ship a coin via Priority Mail in a 12x12x8 box for $4.05?

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-Ben T. * Collector of Errors! * Proud member of the CUFYNA

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  • nederveitnederveit Posts: 1,038 ✭✭✭
    Look her for more detail from the USPS, I think it can vary depending on the weight:

    USPS Calculate Shipping
  • Think not

    the weight kicks it over
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  • OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684


    << <i>Think not

    the weight kicks it over >>



    Your right, it kicks it over to $4.20 image
    -Ben T. * Collector of Errors! * Proud member of the CUFYNA
  • TorinoCobra71TorinoCobra71 Posts: 8,054 ✭✭✭
    no.........you cannot! image

    TorinoCobra71

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  • lsicalsica Posts: 1,592 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Think not >>



    Think "yeah". According to http://postcalc.usps.gov/, you can send a one-pound Priority Mail package (when the length plus girth (the distance around the thickest part) of a package equals 84 inches or less) to anywhere Domestically for $4.05 postage. I doubt highly any coin you might send plus packing materials is going to weigh more than a pound.

    BUT----> this IS without insurance. So that might be a consideration.
    Philately will get you nowhere....
  • Some advise doing to make potential thieving PO workers think twice about stuffing an evelope in their pocket. Kinda hard to put a box in your pocket and have it go undetected. The downside is that your home mailbox will be stuffed with just one or more boxes. That's why some recommend a P.O. Box for all coin deliveries......but then PayPal won't allow a P.O. Box as a confirmed address. At least I have rural style mailbox... you know, the kind out by the curb that will handle quite a bit of incoming mail.
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  • ziggy29ziggy29 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭


    << <i>That's why some recommend a P.O. Box for all coin deliveries......but then PayPal won't allow a P.O. Box as a confirmed address. At least I have rural style mailbox... you know, the kind out by the curb that will handle quite a bit of incoming mail. >>

    I have a P.O. Box as a confirmed address.

    I already had a confirmed address at my residence, and I changed one of my credit cards to have my P.O. Box as the billing address. Then I changed the address associated with that card on PayPal, and the P.O. box became confirmed.
  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ive been shipping coins in the 5 x 8 x 1.5" Priority boxes for years with zero problems. I put the coin/slab in a used bubble mailer and put in the box. It doesn't rattle and weighs very little. The box is big enough to be somewhat difficult to steal. Best of all, the boxes are free.

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

    My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!

  • GATGAT Posts: 3,146
    I just mailed a 1 pound 13 1/2 oz priority box today from San Diego to the midwest. It coct $5.70 plus 50 cents for a delivery confirmation. There was over $800 in coins at my cost in the box. I have found it's lots safer to ship items without the blue insurance tags and high postage that acts like beacons to postal thieves.
    USAF vet 1951-59
  • Best deal is the One Price Priority box.

    I priority mailed 3000 nickels this A.M. from east coast to west for $8.10!!
    35 lbs!!

    Saved $38.00 in postage.
  • Priority Mail is much cheaper then registered, just as safe and best of all a 12x12x8 box goes from Illinois to California in 2-3 days...Registered mail takes 2 weeks or longer going the same distance...image
  • CameonutCameonut Posts: 7,314 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Best deal is the One Price Priority box. >>


    image

    I sent 100Proof1957, 15 pounds of very special cake mix for only $8.10 in a flat rate box. image

    “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

    My digital cameo album 1950-64 Cameos - take a look!

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