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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 1249441, member: 15062&quot;]If your main concern is shipping costs then you have to understand the costs of reasonable ways to ship.</p><p><br /></p><p>A half dollar thrown into an envelope and mailed first class will run $0.44</p><p>Between two sheets of cardboard and in a first class envelope will run $1.71</p><p>A first class small padded envelope would run about $1.71</p><p>A small Parcel Post box would be about $5.10-5.41</p><p>A small Priority Mail box would be about $5.10-5.95</p><p>A Flat Rate Priority Mail envelope is $4.95</p><p>A Small Flat Rate Priority Mail box is $5.20</p><p><br /></p><p>USPS Flat Rate boxes are free</p><p>Small cardboard boxes cost maybe $0.50-1.00</p><p>Regular envelopes are maybe $0.01 each</p><p>Padded Envelopes run about $0.75-1.00</p><p><br /></p><p>A trip to the Post Office (for me) is about a 5 mile round-trip.&nbsp; </p><p>At $3.60 per gallon for gas and approximately 20 MPG this works out to $0.90</p><p><br /></p><p>Personally, everything I ship through ebay sales (non-coin) goes in Flat Rate Boxes with costs rounded up to the next dollar to keep it simple and to cover my gas costs. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many dealers just raise the expected sale price by $5-10 dollars and give free shipping.&nbsp; Who&#039;s kidding whom?</p><p><br /></p><p>Given all of this information, what do you consider to have been a reasonable cost to securely mail your Half Dollar?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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