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If you send something registered mail is insurance (you can make a claim if not recieved) included?
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If you send something registered mail is insurance (you can make a claim if not recieved) included?
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-Paul
<< <i>If you send something registered mail is insurance (you can make a claim if not recieved) included? >>
I remember from previous threads that they now require insurance on registered mail. Besides, in either case, if you don't buy insurance, it's not covered in any case I believe.
2.3.1 Full Value
Regardless of any insurance that may cover the article, the mailer must always declare its full value to the USPS when presenting it for registration and mailing (see chart below). The mailer must tell the USPS clerk (or enter on the firm sheet if a firm mailer) the full value of mail matter presented for registration. Private insurance carried on Registered Mail does not modify the requirements for declaring the full value. The accepting USPS employee may ask the mailer to show that the full value of the matter presented is declared, and may refuse to accept the matter as Registered Mail if a satisfactory declaration of value is not provided. Only articles of no value may be mailed as Registered Mail without insurance.
mail matter
value to be declared
Negotiable Instrument (instruments payable to bearer, including stock certificates endorsed in blank)
Market value (value based on value at time of mailing)
Nonnegotiable Instrument [registered bonds, warehouse receipts, checks, drafts, deeds, wills, abstracts, and similar documents (certificates of stock considered nonnegotiable so far as declaration of value is concerned unless endorsed in blank)]
No value or replacement cost if postal insurance coverage desired1
Money
Full value
Jewelry, Gems, Precious Metal
Market value or cost
Merchandise
Market value or cost
Nonvaluable (matter without intrinsic value such as letters, files, records)
No value or replacement cost if postal insurance coverage desired