Coins Disappeared On The Way To PCGS

The postal inspectors and the local police have bigger fish to fry than chasing down 4 missing coins from a package that was signed for and delivered. PCGS didn't notice anything amiss until THEY opened the package? Didn't they see the package was awfully light in weight when they signed for it at the post office? Maybe somebody at PCGS stole them on the drive from the post office back to the PCGS offices.

Unless there is a pattern of missing coins from packages shipped to PCGS the postal inspectors will not put much effort into this. As far as filing a police report? Pick a jurisdiction the package was processed through and file away!

It's an insurance claim....they will either pay it it or deny it.

1) USPS insurance is a waste of good money.

2) USPS can NOT be trusted.

That is all.

I never like that the PO puts advertising on a package that something is valuable inside unless that its sent registered mail. If its clear tape what stops someone else just putting another piece over because the receiver has not see the package.

anything with value should be brown taped like registered mail

False. Postal inspectors will take very seriously a felony dollar amount being stolen out of a package. They will be especially interested since the only way it could have been stolen is by a postal employee. This is exactly the type of case Postal Inspectors take serious interest in.

Local police won't care and would be a waste of time.

It's not an opinion that that is what the postal police do.

Anyway should have also mentioned, don't bother writing the reholder or whatever on the outside of the package it makes no difference and just makes it more suspicious being mailed

Amen.

Why would I expect the same company that loses my packages to also protect my packages? Sounds like a conflict of interest here. Also, their insurance is an extremely bad deal. In order for their insurance to be worth it for first class mail, they would need to lose about 1% of packages. At that rate, I'd not even be using the USPS. Better than insurance is just setting aside $2 each package sent out to contribute to your "stuff happens" fund, rather than paying into the postal system.

I'm not sure if this was already mentioned, but if you don't belong to the ANA, it might be worth joining just for the discounted premiums to Hugh Wood which insures coin collections and items sent via mail. The part of their insurance that covers items such as those you send by mail is the Gold coverage and is pretty reasonable. The next part of the formula is to only ship in a box and in this case, the most expedient and cost effective is to use the USPS Priority box and no extra insurance if you are insured through Hugh Wood (although double check with Hugh Wood to see that this is still handled in the same way). Hugh Wood's coverage should kick in as long as the package was insured to begin with (with a minimal amount).

One of the key things here is to USE A BOX and seal it well. It is very unlikely for someone to rip open a simple USPS Priority box with no additional insurance added to it. In general, I think it would be very unusual for a postal thief (inside job) to arbitrarily try to rip open any box. I've sent coins in this manner for years now...no issues thus far. The only time I had a coin ripped off was when I shipped a coin in a regular envelop (in coin padding) and insured (the envelope had somehow been opened and the contents missing except for my letter).