Boy, this submission stuff is getting expensive !!

GoDodgersFan · June 30, 2008 2:11AM

Hi all,

I just stopped by the post office to mail my sub/set registry special for June. Not a real big sub, just 50 cards.
This is my first sub in a while so the postal rates were much higher that I expected. Add on the return postage from
PSA and I am out like $46.00.

I am a casual collector. If postal prices keep going up, I will ge done with PSA or just limit myself to one submission per
year. Anyway, I do like the $5.00 specials and they are a great bargain for folks like me.

Tom

swartz1 · June 30, 2008 3:03AM

I hear what you are saying...

The price of everything is going up...

We cant just blame the USPS or PSA...

larryallen73 · June 30, 2008 3:17AM

I always factor $1 per card postage when I factor what my "cost" is of the graded cards I have. Thus if I submit on a $5 special I consider it that I have $6 into it. Even that's probably a little light but don't want to make myself feel any worse about some of the money wasting I do.

Leiascards · June 30, 2008 4:24AM

I just paid 2.77 to submit 15 cards on the 5.00 special. No need to send them registered. These were shipping in a bubble mailer with DC.

leathtech · June 30, 2008 5:07AM

It normally costs me about 4.60 to send out and then what ever the PSA return rate is. Normally I have been sending in cheap registry stuff so no need to send it registered or over insure it to PSA.

larryallen73 · June 30, 2008 5:16AM

I think the OP and myself were referring to postage and handling to AND from PSA. For example, Leiascards, paid $2.77 to send his 15 cards TO PSA and assuming the lowest possible value $18.00 to get his 15 cards back. Thus over $1 per card. It's expensive.

CDsNuts · June 30, 2008 5:21AM

I send them in an iron box so they don't get damaged. Sure it's a little heavier, but it's worth an extra $187 to get my cards there safely.

larryallen73 · June 30, 2008 5:25AM

CD-
Maybe you should drive the cards there in person? Seems like they would be safest like that. Sure with gas prices up it may cost a little but the security would be good plus PSA couldn't claim the cards got "lost" in the mail!

CDsNuts · June 30, 2008 5:37AM

No, the iron boxes seem to be working well for me. Sure I have to get them custom made, but that's just the cost of doing business. I will say that it's a little frustrating that PSA won't send the boxes back to me so I have to get one custom made for each sub, but what's an extra $75 on top of what I'm already spending?

HighChopper · June 30, 2008 5:39AM

I flew to Newport Beach from Washington DC to hand-deliverer my first sub ever.

No lie.

larryallen73 · June 30, 2008 5:51AM

I flew to Newport Beach from Washington DC to hand-deliverer my first sub ever.

For your sake I hope it was better than my first PSA sub. Several of my "mint" cards were PSA 6's!

Rogermnj · June 30, 2008 6:51AM

If you send in 1000 cards at a time the return mail is usually only around $150 so you get to get your cost per card down to like 15cents. Much better than you suckers paying $1 per card in shipping!

otwcards · June 30, 2008 8:23AM

Drop the return on your FedEx account (get one if you don't have one) and the cost comes down to very little and the delivery time is much faster than USPS Registered.

Leiascards · June 30, 2008 8:32AM

<< <i>Drop the return on your FedEx account (get one if you don't have one) and the cost comes down to very little and the delivery time is much faster than USPS Registered. >>

Many poster here would not trust Fed Ex to carry their garbage. Fed Ex sucks.

Allen · June 30, 2008 9:07AM

I closed my FedEx account the day after I watched Castaway.

HighChopper · June 30, 2008 9:36AM

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jay0791 · June 30, 2008 10:00AM

I wouldn't ship dogsh** with fed ex not ever ever ever and ever
After being told cards are " not worth the cardboard they are printed on" by a fed ex supervisor after a customer relations nightmare......

Thet don't deserve my business or anyone who ships valuables ...especially cards

if you do......hope nothing ever ever ever happens....even if you have evidence and tracking numbers with insurance.

Leiascards · June 30, 2008 10:05AM

That is how Fed Ex feels about all collectibles. If you have a PSA10 1986 Topps Ryan and it gets damaged all Fed Ex will pay is what the card can be replaced for which to them is a mint raw copy which is 3.00 they see no difference when it comes to grading.

WinPitcher · June 30, 2008 10:11AM

Speaking of lost in the mail whatever happened to that order that was supposedly lost?

Anyone ever hear of the outcome of that?

Steve

PoppaJ · June 30, 2008 11:21AM

Here's an idea on how to save postage fees:

Put PSA's address in the RETURN ADDRESS area of the package.

Put your address in the TO: area!

Drop the package in the mail with no postage and the PO will return the package to PSA.

I didn't say it was a GOOD idea.... just an idea!

Just kidding of course..... I actually had a neighbor, when I was a kid back in the 60s, that used to send Christmas cards this way.

He gets out this year I think!

Carew29 · June 30, 2008 1:06PM

I'm out $60 for my 100 sub of vintage cards...

Boy, this submission stuff is getting expensive !!

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