USPS mailing advice request
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What is the most efficient, practical, and safest way to mail a coin valued in the $50 - $250 range? I'm used to using registered, which is obviously wildly inefficient for this value range.
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<< <i>If you do not have your own insurance then first class mail with insurance would seem to be a good choice unless you are also receiving a PayPal payment such as from ebay, which would necessitate Delivery Confirmation under $250 and Signature Confirmation from $250 or higher. >>
Best answer.
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<< <i>Put it in a box and send it first class insured. >>
I'd have recommended that but them little boxes can get expensive whereas Priority Mail packaging is free.
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<< <i>Mail it in a padded envelope first class insured. >>
Ditto. If it's under 13 ozs this is the way to go. Over 13 ounces then use a Priority Mail Flat Rate box.
Buy using PayPal Multi-Order shipping online. It saves you about 10% but does require a PayPal account, scale and printer.
just re-enforce it with extra cardboard and pack in bubble rap and send it on its way
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<< <i>Mail it in a padded envelope first class insured. >>
Ditto. If it's under 13 ozs this is the way to go. Over 13 ounces then use a Priority Mail Flat Rate box.
Buy using PayPal Multi-Order shipping online. It saves you about 10% but does require a PayPal account, scale and printer. >>
Yep....best $25 I ever spent for selling coins has been the postal scale. I just did the above last Friday...2 SAEs in a nice padded envelope, insured because I didn't feel like self-insuring this time, and used the registered mail paper tape to seal all the sides and also to put across the back (reason I did it across the back is because the 1 time I have had a coin missing when I received it was when a forum member had sent me 2 coins and I opened it to only find 1 (but the packaging for the other was still there). Seems that someone had slit the back, very nicely and carefully, and removed 1 coin and put the packaging back. This way, by taping the back, I make it less likely to happen)
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...whatever method you choose, say a little prayer so it doesn't show up like this:
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<< <i>Put it in a box and send it first class insured. >>
I'd have recommended that but them little boxes can get expensive whereas Priority Mail packaging is free. >>
No it isn't. The small flat rate box weighs 2.0oz. Let's say that with packaging and the coin the parcel now weighs 6oz (possibly high).
First Class: $2.07 + $.19 for electronic DC = $2.36
Priority: $4.95 + free electronic DC = $4.95
Even at Staples, where shipping supplies are grossly inflated in price, small boxes are well less than a buck each in a small bundle. Let's round up and say the box is $1. Now First Class is $3.36, which is still $1.59 less than Priority. No, the Priority supplies are NOT free.
<< <i>Put it in a box and send it first class insured. >>
If it's in the 48, I'd go with the above.
Otherwise, priority mail.
rate comparisons can be looked at on the usps web site.
...that's precisely how my coin was shipped.
Wether it goes in a box or bubble pack mailer is secondary most lost shiptments are really miss directed because the label was miss read or was unreadable.
BTW 1st. Class with Delivery Confirmation VIA PayPal shipping bubble pack mailers have worked over 300 times this year for me in that price range.
<< <i>...that's precisely how my coin was shipped. >>
If your cracked slab was in a Safe-T-Mailer AND a padded mailer, the USPS must have driven over it with the delivery truck!
<< <i>...that's precisely how my coin was shipped.
And, because that can happen, I also like to add some bubble wrap and/or styrofoam peanuts to the packaging so it doesn't happen.
I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment