US Mint Surveys

Thanks wquinn. Was curious as to what type of information they were looking for when I heard about it. I guess enough people replied no mint limit for the survey with the SF Set coming out

I would love a UHR ASE

[Edit] I just took another US Mint survey last night. This one appeared to be geared towards shipping options. I.e., would you prefer a free option, overnight option, etc. Would you be willing to pay $3 more per shipment to guarantee a signature upon delivery, are you satisfied with the security of your shipments, etc.
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I would really like an option for a signature upon delivery. My coins usually sit in a curbside mailbox for many hours before I get home. I had purchased 5 proof ASE and they sat out there until I got home. I was real uncomfortable about that.

I also have a post office mail box and would love to have my high dollar purchases sent to it, rather than having the UPS deliver it. The sole reason that I would like this option is that the post office would be a secured holding facility until I can get there to pick it up. With the UPS delivery I alsways have to make arrangements to pick it up from them and have to worry about them sending a package back before I can get there to pick it up.

I hear you there. I've gotten around that by having my high-dollar shipments sent to my office where the receptionist accepts them. But I know not everyone has that option. If I had to fret about my $300 ASE 25th anniversary sets just sitting on my doorstep waiting for me to get home from work, I think I would have gotten an ulcer. Or worked from home on the delivery week. :)

A few of the options they threw out there were non-UPS delivery methods, including FedEx and USPS, so maybe there's hope for your PO Box. I don't know if UPS will deliver to boxes at a UPS store, but I would hope they would. Perhaps that's an option for you.

UPS will not deliver to a USPS box. They want a street address and nothing else.

My work place wants all packages opened with no exception. My office payroll comes to addressed me and yet they want the mail room to open it. That went over big when the head office found the payroll register and pay checks sitting out in the open with the mailroom employees looking at what every one makes.

When that happened the exception became mail addressed to the head office. That went over big when they head office was out of town on a payday and everyone was coming to me about their paychecks. The headman locked the paychecks in her desk. I then had to get on the phone to home office to write emergency checks for everyone (375 employees on three shifts). This could have been solved very easily by having the mailroom not open addressed mail. This happened on my day off when I on my way to the other side of the state for a family wedding. My wife was %&@@#$. We got out of town 6 hours late for a 5 hour drive.

Can you imagine how pleased I would have been if I had had the 25th Anniversary set sent to my office and they opened it up?

In a two weeks this won't matter to me because I will be retired. But I would still like to have the option of having the mint send all my coins to the USPS mail box that I have. If its gold they ship it UPS but if it is high dollar silver they send it via USPS.

An option would be nice.

{edit} if I had left home a half hour earlier the checks would not have able to be written and the facility would have been up in arms. No one else in the office can write checks.

Re: the surveys. To get on the Mint's surveys list, you either have to spend at least $2,000.00 or have 8 orders or more in a calendar year. In the 2011, that was very easy to do with the 8 5oz. coins that appeared throughout the year. The survey I received asked questions about the different kinds of silver American Eagles I would be interested in, from Denver minted ones, ultra high reliefs, and would I be interested in a special American Eagle set EVERY year? That was where the SF set first surfaced.