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<p>[QUOTE="dreamer94, post: 856806, member: 6449"]I was very fortunate. A couple of years ago, I bought a 1955 DDO (PCGS MS64 RB) from an Ebay seller. The coin never arrived, but it was insured. The post office did not claim to have delivered it. When a shipment is insured, the seller is the one who has to file the claim because they are the party who takes out the insurance. This seller was extraordinarily honest and decent. Instead of making me wait until the claim was settled, he let me apply the purchase price toward another 1955 DDO (also PCGS MS64 RB) which he promptly sent to me. </p><p> </p><p>The other lesson we learned from this is that when you send something by priority mail, even with delivery confirmation, the post office cannot tell what happens to it from the time it is mailed until it is delivered. If it disappears, they won't be able to tell the last place it was seen. A valuable package should be sent by certified or registered mail which provides more documentation of the intermediate steps in the delivery chain. That seems to make the packages less prone to being lost on purpose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dreamer94, post: 856806, member: 6449"]I was very fortunate. A couple of years ago, I bought a 1955 DDO (PCGS MS64 RB) from an Ebay seller. The coin never arrived, but it was insured. The post office did not claim to have delivered it. When a shipment is insured, the seller is the one who has to file the claim because they are the party who takes out the insurance. This seller was extraordinarily honest and decent. Instead of making me wait until the claim was settled, he let me apply the purchase price toward another 1955 DDO (also PCGS MS64 RB) which he promptly sent to me. The other lesson we learned from this is that when you send something by priority mail, even with delivery confirmation, the post office cannot tell what happens to it from the time it is mailed until it is delivered. If it disappears, they won't be able to tell the last place it was seen. A valuable package should be sent by certified or registered mail which provides more documentation of the intermediate steps in the delivery chain. That seems to make the packages less prone to being lost on purpose.[/QUOTE]
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