Am I Gonna Get Busted?

While I send and receive coins around the world, here in Australia is prohibited to send or receive money, or precious metals, however, I have never had a problem....yet.

Never use the words COINS, CURRENCY or CASH on a customs declaration. Also I NEVER insure a package as that is like putting a target on the side of it! I use hobby items, numismatic items or tokens on my labels. Basically the law is to prevent you/me/we from shipping huge sums of money in and out of the country that the IRS might have a slight interest in? It is also aimed at criminals and criminal activities. I have sent and received cash, coins and notes all over the world since 2002, and haven't lost a package yet so I must count my blessing and my luck!
I also ONLY declare the face value of the coins on the customs declaration, NOT the collector value and everything is ALWAYS checked as a gift! You must also keep in mind you can't declare face value of, lets say $6.45 and then ask for $150.00 worth of insurance! Thats part of the reason I never insure!

Am I going to get busted

Last month I received two convincing emails one from the FBI and another from the CIA both requesting I open the attachement and answer their questions why my ID was seen on restricted internet sites
Norton Doctor gave no virus alarm but as you can imagine a Belgian citizen just laughs and deletes the junk ; after all when I was defrauded they did not help me either

I know the insurance rates of most european mails and they hover all around 1% of the value indicating real trouble rate is like less
then 1%
With such a low insurance rate I allways ask insured mail ; problem is it only works inside the EC and above 500 E several countries wants you to redwax seal the package like in the
Napoleonistic times

see I am not the only one who has had that trouble.. I had the same trouble when I sent a package to KLD in Australia. And Bobby squared it away then to. but seriously most of the employes seem to believe the contraire..

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Also I NEVER insure a package as that is like putting a target on the side of it!

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That's why we use U-pic insurance. They tell you not to mark it insured and it's about 40% of the price.

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i had to send a coin to turkey and I stated it was a numismatic item. She asked me what that meant. then she got out hte big book of rules and read that coins, money or metal were not allowed to be shiped from the US to Turkey.

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Go back and tell the stupid clerk fine Postal Employee they got out the wrong book. You can ship coins; banknotes; currency notes (paper money); traveler's checks; securities payable to bearer; platinum, gold or silver, manufactured or not; precious stones; jewelry; and other valuable articles via insured Parcel Post to Turkey all day long.

See my post above for important Postal Employee tip, and link to check it out for yourself.

That's a good one! Wait until you
ship you first package to Russia!
You'll get the evil eye.
I work for an international airline.
I have to deal with U.S.C.S. and the
Postal security every day. It's their
job to make you wiggle a bit. But if
your honest and vaguely discribed the
contents you'll avoid the FBI's Most
Wanted list. Happy Trading!

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Originally posted by suvoth

LOL That would suck! Don't get jailed on my account! LOL

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We're good. This is a small town and she's seen me in there a hundred times over the years so we're familiar enough to say hello at the grocery store. I figured if it was something serious she'd have told me. It was just odd the way she said that.