Options
New Service Offered by USPS: "Pre-Cracking" of Third World Slabs
Connecticoin
Posts: 12,543 ✭✭✭✭✭
As an added feature to USPS Ground Advantage, for $1 extra you can have the USPS "pre-crack" your third-world slabs such as PCI (allow 4 weeks for additional handling time):
In the USPS's defense, the sender should not have attempted to send the coin in a plain white envelope 
. I give them credit for eventually getting it delivered to me 
7
Comments
They paid the package rate but put it in a regular #10 envelope.
🙄
Ouch, but can you really blame the PO when the packaging is that poor.
My Collection of Old Holders
Never a slave to one plastic brand will I ever be.
Yikes. Yes, I’d direct the blame squarely in the seller’s direction in this case. Glad the coin arrived.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
Agreed. Per my note following the photo, I give them credit for eventually getting it to me.
Poorly packaged and inviting trouble.
Yeah, I think the seller was not experienced in shipping coins.
If you knew the machinery that envelope had to go through, you'd be amazed it arrived at all.
Do you really want that address out there? Not everyone is honest these days......
“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!
A PO box?
Type Collector of U.S. Pre-33 Gold https://instagram.com/deplorable_dan Successful transactions with- @drfish, @Cladiator, @johnny010, @Pedzola, @PerryHall, @2windy2fish, @Ike1964, @JohnThePainter, @rpmsrpms, @REALGATOR
At least it appears the coin wasn't damaged.
Successful BST with ad4400, Kccoin, lablover, pointfivezero, koynekwest, jwitten, coin22lover, HalfDimeDude, erwindoc, jyzskowsi, COINS MAKE CENTS, AlanSki, BryceM
1/4 inch seems to be the standard with usps first class or less. They knew you were a collector and wanted to help you out by cracking it to further customer loyalty.
Never had any problems. Use padded mailers with sticker “handle with care.” Contents wrapped in bubble wrap. For submissions to our hosts use boxes.
Looks like a big screwup on the part of the shipper. Obviously somebody inexperienced in shipping coins.
with that envelope, the sorting machines could crack any slab
When I ran the cancelling machine,the average amount of coins spit out on the floor was $50 on a shift, usually quarters.
Most was from lazy people taping money on the front of the envelope instead of buying a stamp. But there for a while musical birthday cards got fat with batteries and also had the innards blown out of them on the belt.
Clerks have a template they use at the counter to judge what can be accepted for machinability. But if you drop in a box or after hours depository you have to judge for yourself.
There also used to be a special handling surcharge if you asked for it to stay out of the machines, but things have changed so much since I was there, don’t know if that still exists. Local post offices no longer do any postmarking or cancelling, it’s all done at regional processing hubs.
Sorry your slab got cancelled!
I recently received a coin in a flip in a #10 envelope. No extra packing. Postage was a single stamp, except it wasn't even a stamp. It was just a sticker shaped like a stamp with a Christmas tree on it. I think when I returned it I used my standard "please ship more securely" comment.
Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars