My first USPS insurance claim for lost coin as the seller

You will be fine - I did one once before and it took a lot longer that 30 days, but I received my money.

 

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Here is the coin:

 

In the past couple of weeks I sold a few coins for the first time ever on ebay. How the USPS does things is completely baffling to me. A coin can get from Indiana to Hawaii in 2 days simply first class, yet still in limbo after a week to get to Wyoming. Been stuck in Denver since 4/2. Washington state in 3 days and Illinois(like 100 miles) took 4 days. They all come with ebay tracking so it's entertaining and frustrating to watch.

I even brought 2 into the post office and had them scan at the counter for my own curiousness. Both scanned a 8:03am. At 10am I check and one showed scanned at 11:16am and which hadn't even happened yet. The other one(scanned at the same time) didn't post till the next day and was listed with a different status scan. Very odd indeed.

I wish you luck and hope it all works out

 

Just to save time while running the route. It's a lot faster to simply scan everything that needs to be scanned at one time. For a LONG time that was common practice here where I live. Not as much anymore since they put "checkpoint" stickers on some of the mailboxes that have to be scanned each day as well while they are delivering. It's too easy to catch someone doing batch scanning when the checkpoint scans show you weren't on that part of the route until hours later.

Don't know when or even if it changed but either party has been able to initiate the claim for at least the last twenty years.

 

JUST SO EVERYONE IS AWARE, I FOUND OUT SOME VERY DISTURBING NEWS THE OTHER DAY REGARDING THE POST OFFICE. I PURCHASED A COIN ON EBAY, AND WAS WAITING/WATCHING THE TRACKING ONLINE. I SAW ON MONDAY MORNING THAT MY COIN HAD HIT THE POST OFFICE LOCATION THAT MY POSTMAN DEPARTS FROM, BUT WHEN I GOT MY MAIL, IT HAD NOT COME. SO I WENT DOWN TO THE POST OFFICE WITH THE TRACKING NUMBER IN MY HAND. I HANDED THE TRACKING NUMBER TO THE CLERK, SHE TYPED IT IN, AND SAW THAT IT WAS AT THE LOCATION AND WENT TO GO GET IT. I HAPPENED TO LOOK AT HER SCREEN WHEN SHE WENT TO GO GET IT...BRACE YOURSELVES...

THE SELLER HAD USED PAYPAL SHIPPING TO PRINT THE LABEL. WHEN THE CLERK TYPED IN MY TRACKING NUMBER, I WAS LOOKING AT A PAGE THAT CONTAINED A PICTURE OF, AND ITEM DESCRIPTION FROM EBAY OF MY ITEM. THEY CAN SEE WHAT THE ITEM WAS WHEN SOLD FROM EBAY.

I DONT KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT THIS FREAKED ME OUT.

 

If that's true then it sure does seem like an invitation that says, "Steal me!"
But I'm assuming it doesn't work that way for eBay labels? ...Anyone know?

 

Well that's disturbing.

 

I'm sorry if I was unclear. I bought this on ebay. The seller printed the label through ebay (which is through paypal too). The post office is a third party that has access to this information. I don't see why they need it, other than a further attack on our privacy, but it exists. It happened. Real life.

 

Seriously. If that's the case, they can pick and choose what they want to, um, "liberate". I'll have to take a trip down to our local post office and talk to some of the gub'mint employees who work there...

 

usps does not cover coins.

 

Is Ship Cover a better option to insure than the USPS on eBay?

 

USPS does cover collectible coins. Anyone with a computer can look that up. Shipcover, however, clearly states that they do not cover coins/currency.

 

Wow! I did not know that about Shipcover and need to read the fine print. TC

 

Isn't it lovely how eBay still lets you buy ShipCover Insurance... even though it won't cover you.

 

Here's the link: http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm/s010.htm

Specifically it states that if insured, this will be reimbursed in the event of loss/damage: "g. Fair market value of stamps and coins of philatelic or numismatic value, as determined by a recognized stamp or coin dealer or current coin and stamp collectors newsletters and trade papers."

 

Do you have to send it registered mail for it to be covered?

 

Nope

 

The link is a funny read. My favorite non-payable claims are "Baby poultry, items of sentimental value, items lost do to war, insurrection, or civil disturbance, and death of honeybees or crickets"

 

Normally, odd policies like these are written because such issues came up...otherwise nobody would have thought of it. I'll bet some good stories are behind these.