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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5180909, member: 101855"]To save a little money, I paid for the lots I won in an auction by check instead of credit card. After two weeks, I contacted the seller and found out they had not received the check. After waiting a couple more days, I bit the bullet paid for the material with a credit card. A week later, I got letter form the company with my check in it. It took the post office a month to deliver a “first class letter” from Florida to Michigan.</p><p><br /></p><p>One way to cut your risks is to rent a PO Box. When I first got out college I lived in an apartment. I gave my address to a local dealer who promised me that he would send “discreet letters” when he need to to contact me. The very first letter had drawings of coins on the outside, and first glimpse I had of it was in the mail box outside of my apartment door. I may as well have put a sign on the door that read, “Coin collector here; come in and rob me!” From then on, it was a PO Box for all of my numismatic mail.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 5180909, member: 101855"]To save a little money, I paid for the lots I won in an auction by check instead of credit card. After two weeks, I contacted the seller and found out they had not received the check. After waiting a couple more days, I bit the bullet paid for the material with a credit card. A week later, I got letter form the company with my check in it. It took the post office a month to deliver a “first class letter” from Florida to Michigan. One way to cut your risks is to rent a PO Box. When I first got out college I lived in an apartment. I gave my address to a local dealer who promised me that he would send “discreet letters” when he need to to contact me. The very first letter had drawings of coins on the outside, and first glimpse I had of it was in the mail box outside of my apartment door. I may as well have put a sign on the door that read, “Coin collector here; come in and rob me!” From then on, it was a PO Box for all of my numismatic mail.[/QUOTE]
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