How to send registered mail? Edit: Solved!
Dollar2007
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Sorry to make a new post about this but I can't find how I should prepare a box to mail a package registered. I'm in the post office parking lot writing this and the lady inside didn't feel I needed to do anything different is this true?
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It's been ages since I mailed registered anything.
...gotta have brown paper tape on all edges and closures to the envelope or box...
...it costs more...
what else y'all?
The actual PO rules are just table stakes.
On top of those you have to understand the idiosyncracies of each PO employee and how they read those rules. Yea verily, all 500,000 of them.
Tis not sufficient to read them the postal code, because they are more qualified to understand it than you are.
I have been told that you can't send money through the mail (all my shipments immediately became "medals").
I have been told you can't use the self-adhseive brown paper tape, you have to use the kind that you rub with a water wheel.
I have been told that clear tape is verboten even if all the seams are covered with brown paper tape.
Registered mail is like the grading services, you take your package in, and maybe it will "work" or "not work." And cost you a lot of hassle either way!
amount, use a decimal point after the full dollar amount on the form to designate cents .
For example , write 1450.00 on the form , as writing 1450 can be translated by the USPS
as fourteen dollars and fifty cents . Supposedly has happened a few times in the past .
A simple move which may prevent a complicated situation .
<< <i>It's not the case here, but never mail a registered package with a bubble envelope! >>
You can use a bubble mailer if it's inside a paper envelope or box.
Also, you can use a bubble mailer as the mailing envelope for International Registered Mail (try to figure out the logic for that one!)
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<< <i>It's not the case here, but never mail a registered package with a bubble envelope! >>
You can use a bubble mailer if it's inside a paper envelope or box.
Also, you can use a bubble mailer as the mailing envelope for International Registered Mail (try to figure out the logic for that one!) >>
You can mail registered in almost any envelope. You must seal the envelope opening with brown paper tape, though. Personally, I feel a bit more secure using a box for registered, myself.
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You don't have to cover the entire box with paper tape, just any seams. No plastic tape exposed anywhere on the package. If you want to reinforce a shipment with glass reinforced tape be sure to cover it with paper tape.
Keep in mind that the tape is strong when dried so too much doesn't hurt.
Can't use a bubble wrap package, Clerk has to stamp along the edges of the tape to show it has not been tampered with upon delivery. Can use paper or cardboard envelopes.
Need to fill out PS For 3806, Receipt for Registered Mail and assign insured value. Form (white, about 3'x4") is available at the post office.
If signature confirmation is required, instead purchase, at the counter, Electronic Return Receipt. It is cheaper, no forms, on-line trackable and accepted by ebay/paypal as proof of delivery. Your registered shipping numbe (usually ends in US) will be your online tracking number.
If under 13 oz. declare "first class registered, insured, electronic return receipt." It's cheaper. All registered mail is slow and travels at the same pace whether its first class registered or priority registered
If over 13 oz. they are going to charge you the higher priority rate automatically, not up for negotiation. This will not shorten delivery time, it only increases your cost.
You can take advantage of Flat Rate priority boxes for Registered Mail. They add the registered fee to the flat rate fee but you still save a bundle on heavy items. Flat rate boxes, like other boxes, have to have the paper tape over every seam. For registered mail bullion shipments, the medium flat rate box works great because six small flat rate priority boxes fit perfectly inside it giving you added strength and compartments. The small boxes make great filler for remaining empty space in the box and help keep heavy items from shifting around during shipment.
Paper address labels are acceptable, but I have heard tales of them being removed/covered in transit and replaced with a new shipping address. I quit using them and now write directly onto the package with an indelible Sharpie. the bigger you write, the less chance of someone covering it with a "new" shipping label during transit.
Maximum inurance for registered is $25K and for Express $5K. On a $2k shipment it only cost about $5-8 more to go Express. Express mail fee includes a signaure confirmation tracking number that is trackable online. No extra cost or forms for this, your express shipping number is your tracking number.
Registered is the safest mailing method, it is signed for by all postal employees that take posession of it. They say that if a registered shipment is lost a postal employee will lose his job.
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Edit: The lady I spoke with who told me I didn't have to do anything special apparently was only the Post Office Box person, and not a regular clerk.