How do you guys mail/ship coins?

I should have added that more expensive things I have sold, I sent via Priority mail and insured them with tracking. For that I used a Priority Mail bubble envelope provided free by the Post Office. As others have said, it gets there quickly and buyers seem content to pay the shipping charges.

 

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If you are using ebay after the auction ends there is list of actions on the right of your screen in the my ebay section. I just click on purchase shipping label, weigh the package, print a shipping label and tape it to my package. I think you have to have a paypal account. I like this option because you and the buyer can track the item through ebay.
When sell something outside of ebay paypal has a multi-order shipping tool in the merchant services.(I don't have a merchant account) It allows you to invoice, purchase/pay for shipping. Either way when finished I just hand the package to my mail carrier at work with the outgoing mail.
Usually I ship slabbed coins 1 or 2 at a time and it costs $1.58 for 1 small coin with delivery conf. and $1.75 for larger coins like morgans, Ikes that sort of thing.
I think the pricing is the same for first class, but if you ship priority there is a small break in price and free delivery confirmation when you buy online.
Oh and I just use my digital coin scale.

 

Thanks..

 

I always put my coins in a padded mailer, #000 I believe, wrap it in bubble wrap, drop it in a 'small-box' Priority Mail box, with nothing sliding. For $7 and change for under $200 items, I know my mailer won't get 'opened/damaged', naturally, or with a 'bit of help', and my buyers (on & off ebay), traders (off ebay), are always happy. You can't skimp on shipping. I do not know about overseas shipping, but here in the lower 48, a real collector does NOT want to see a plain envelope with stamps on it...no sir, that's the LAST thing he/she wants to see! lol

I thought someone mentioned Teletrade shipped items, but can't find it now...but they do ship securely, and wrap brown packing tape, with the strands in it...they wrap the snot out of it. They ship VERY securely...it isn't a bubble mailer, but I belive a padded mailer. I was told at my local P.O.'s that the padded mailers, the smaller ones, are now under the 'thickness' requirement at the P.O. It's like the 'you must be this tall to ride this ride' at the parks and carnivals...they pass it through this 'gauge', for lack of a better term.

Can't skimp on shipping...it DOES cost, but you really can't skimp. I ALWAYS use del confirm (or sig confirm for over $250...both on and off ebay).

 

I spend the 19c and get the delivery confirmation with EVERY shipment, even 99c items. Buyers can track it and so can I.