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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Harryj, post: 448738, member: 14623&quot;]I have received many, coins in the mail and have sent my fair share also. I never ever thought one would come up missing. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I purchased a MS 66 1855 RD large Cent recently for a little under 1K. Unfortunately it was in a NTC slab. I wanted to get it in a PCGS slab and thought it would go at least MS 64 RD so I mailed it to my friend along with a money order for the slabbing fee&#039;s, ins, and postage. I sent it USPS priority, 1k insurance with a signature receipt. I packed it in a bubble wrap mailer and taped all 4 sides of the mailer for additional security.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Unfortunately my friend e-mailed me that the package was received marked damaged without contents. The money was crumpled up and still in the package. Holy Cow!!! I will give USPS the benefit of the doubt and say its possible that the package was damaged, however it was securely packaged and the fact that the money order was crumpled up still inside the package gives me some doubts. The coin was also wrapped in a piece of paper with my friends address. Anyone can tell by the amount of postage on a package that something valuable is in it.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My friend almost immediately took photos of the damaged/empty and e-mailed them to me (this was very important). I contacted the post office and they instructed me to fill out an insurance claim and submit the following:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1. A receipt for the item and a copy of a credit card statement if purchased online. If no receipt is available or the item is unavailable, an <span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">appraisal </font></span>and or photo with some type of proof of the items value is required. One cannot insure an item worth a dollar and expect to receive $1000 just because you insured it for that much.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2. A photo of the item if possible.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>3. A photo of the package if possible. My friend&#039;s quick response with a Photo saved my claim processing time and added to the validity to my claim.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>4. Any other supporting information and the original insurance claim check.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A Postal inspector did call me about the incident and told me if the coin was found it would be returned to me and if i saw it in e-bay or somewhere else to call him.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lessons learned:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1. Keep All receipts and take photo&#039;s!!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2. Send Registered mail if possible for larger $ amounts. Registered mail maintains a signature record each time an item changes hands.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>3. Inform the r<span style="color: black"><font face="Verdana">ecipients </font></span>of mail when you send items if and have them take photo&#039;s if possible should it become damaged.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>4. Yes it is possible to over-insure an item. You are only going to get the value of the item back.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>5. No more bubble wrap mailers for me.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Harry[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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