Please Be On The Lookout For These Two Stolen Tokens

Nice tokens I am sorry about your loss..

I hope they turn up, Daniel, but unfortunately they probably won't.

I bought one from the same guy. Didn't see any neg feedback about lost packages. Hope all works out for ya.

those are pretty cool well keep my eye out for them. since I be looking around on ebay..

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"Handle with Care! Rare and Valuable numismatics inside"

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You've got to be joking.

dcarr- Sorry to hear about your stolen tokens. Will keep an eye out for them.

You don't need to have "Joe's Coin Shop" on the envelope to put it at risk. The blue "insured" sticker on the envelope, plus the feel of the coin inside is all that is needed to tempt someone to work the coin out or push it through the envelope. Insured envelopes are in no way held securely by the post office. Anyone can have a try at it. You have to pay for "registered" mail to get them put the envelope in the safe at the post office. Even then, in my experience, registered mail is often ignored, not securely held, and not signed for. It is often safer to use inconspicuous regular mail which doesn't say "steal me!" Plus I resent having to pay the post office extra not to steal it.

I was actually the seller in this transaction. And I'm not folish enough to put anything like "coin" on the outside. The package was a large envelope, very securely taped. The thief ripped it almost in half to make it look like a handling mishap. The tokens were encased in one of those large sticky corrugated cardboard fold-overs with my address stamped on it. In the last few years, I've had this happen three times. Two were packaged identically and one was a bubble mailer. All three were insured. All three were ripped open during shipment. And in none of the cases did the contents (which were securely marked as to their owner) ever turn up.

Interestingly, I've mailed perhaps a thousand similarly-packaged items that were not insured, and not a single one of those ever got ripped open in the mail (although a few buyers "claimed" that they never got theirs).

You may be wondering why I use insurance then. The reason is that items insured for over $50 require the recipients signature. So that is a relatively inexpensive way to show proof of delivery should the buyer ever claim they didn't get it. But the threshold for signatures on insured mail just increased to $200 from $50.

I can testify to the well-thought-out quality of dcarr's mailings; if there's any way to make such a shipment look unlike what it is and where it's coming from, he knows how to do it. This had to be the work of someone who knows not only the obvious, but also the more subtle ways of moving coins through the mail.

It almost makes you want to forego insurance.