140 lbs ofpennies

I went to the post office to ship two large flat rate boxes of wheat cents. They weighed 70lbs each. The post office wouldnt allow me to insure it, because they felt the integrity of the box may fail. I taped the heck out of it. If the usps designs a priority box and says there is no weight limit, can they deny insurance? I did not fight it, becuase I did not want to carry 140lbs of pennies back home.

 

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hah! that's awesome!!

 

can they deny insurance?

 

Apparently.

 

I believe 70 lbs is the weight limit.

It was when I worked there.

If you filled it with Gold and it weighed 600 lbs , do you expect them to take it ?

 

priority mail, they say if it fits it ships

 

Indeed, but the large flat rate box does have a weight limit of 70 lbs:

https://www.usps.com/ship/priority-mail-flat.htm

"Mailable items up to 70 lbs"

The "if it fits it ships" refers to the price. You pay the same price for 1 pound as you would for 70 pounds.

I received 70 lbs of world coins in a large flat rate box a few months ago. It was taped very heavily, but still, if it was lifted and set down a few more times, it would have burst like a water balloon.

 

....there is always somebody who will, logic be damned!

 

We've pushed that before. I was able to fill a canvas bag full of 90% and used a coat hanger to wire the opening shut with pliers. I then placed one large flat rate box in another then taped the box with reinforced tape (the kind you use for registered mail). A little trimming of the liner box so the outside diameter wasn't changed as they will bounce you right there. They should accept it like that, but my regular postal worker needed help lifting it off her scale.
Matt

 

140 lbs. of cents packed in a container that's probably only 'weight rated' for 25 lbs. Use your head..........

 

thats allot of cents.....

 

Joy be to the one who gets it.
He she will get 139 lbs and 15.5 ounces ot good grade copper and about .05 ounces of good keeper coins.
Been down that road a dozen times
Anyone else got boxs or bags of these boys?

 

LOL! I hope they get a hernia!

 

It seems centsless to me lol

 

About 10-11 years ago I bought like 700 Australian pennies from 1912-64 that were shipped from Oz in a big heavy box. By the time it made it here it was pretty well beaten to H E double hockey sticks but all the coins were still intact. BTW old Oz pennies were the approximate size of a US half dollar.

 

... with a really cool kangaroo on them.

 

So, I have to ask, I weigh 68 pounds. Can I be put in a box and sent to Australia?

 

The sooner the better!

 

If you can fit in that box, then maybe you could be sent anywhere in the US, but I don't think the flat rate boxes can be sent internationally.

 

You should try it! Afghanistan might suit you!