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<p>[QUOTE="Rich Beale, post: 8267812, member: 77960"]Sure, but bear in mind you are looking at the matter only from your own personal point of view - at one address in one single area at any one point in time. If you look at a much larger dataset, i.e. the tens of thousands of packages that a company ships to countries all over the world over the course of any given year, certain trends become clear. Mailmen are not uniformly honest or reliable everywhere. Over the last twenty years we've lost far more by post than any other method. Insurance companies look at even larger datasets, and make their underwriting decisions accordingly.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of the day, nobody is going to say you're wrong to have a preference. But if you want your irreplaceable coin insured while it's in transit, sometimes there are limitations to the service that can be used.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Rich Beale, post: 8267812, member: 77960"]Sure, but bear in mind you are looking at the matter only from your own personal point of view - at one address in one single area at any one point in time. If you look at a much larger dataset, i.e. the tens of thousands of packages that a company ships to countries all over the world over the course of any given year, certain trends become clear. Mailmen are not uniformly honest or reliable everywhere. Over the last twenty years we've lost far more by post than any other method. Insurance companies look at even larger datasets, and make their underwriting decisions accordingly. At the end of the day, nobody is going to say you're wrong to have a preference. But if you want your irreplaceable coin insured while it's in transit, sometimes there are limitations to the service that can be used.[/QUOTE]
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