i use about 3 to 4 rolls of shipping tape per each package of coins. how much tape do you use per each package of coins?
I don't even see how you could use that much on one parcel. A roll of shipping tape lasts me about a week and a half.
On the subject of shipping tape, I found a large roll of the twined brown shipping tape that you have to use for registered packages some years ago and am still winding it down. Prolly have a few years left.
I sort of play it by ear. It really depends on how hard the coins are struggling while I'm trying to secure them.
I'd use Boryami water from the Republic of Georgia - it has a real bitter taste unlike anything else I have ever had. Good grief, they even make some soda out of the stuff - hmm
I can't stand the overwrapped shipments I get from other sellers. I spend lots of time peeling it all away from coins without damaging them, get paper cuts or scissor cuts along the way, and toss all kinds of packing / shipping material in the landfill unnecessarily, although I do try to recycle everything that makes sense. I also get a little annoyed when sellers tape their wares to the invoices / receipts. When I remove the tape, the paperwork usually tears. I usually wrap my coins in a single thickness of bubble wrap, drop it into an addressed bubble mailer with business card, close it and tape it with a 3" length of reinforced tape . . . that's it. For expedited shipments I simply drop the aforementioned mailer into an addressed Priority ot Express envelope. Does anyone else get frustrated with overpacked coins?
I have bought so ,many rolls with just a singled wrap of bubble wrap and a single piece of tape and received just the envelope because the post office handled it so bad it tore the envelope open and the coins are gone, so I like the over protection and the ability to get them, I value the coins more than just cheap postage and shipping....
In nearly every case where I have sent / received a package torn by the USPS, it mattered not whether the coins were generously wrapped . . . the coins almost invariably were missing. Rolls are heavy, and are easily identified by size, shape and apparent density. Therefore, they should always be sent in boxes . . . I strongly suspect that is why you have lost so many. - Mike
