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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1225436, member: 15929&quot;]Perhaps you need to point the Post Office to their own web page:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/609.htm#1097188" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/609.htm#1097188" rel="nofollow">http://pe.usps.gov/text/dmm300/609.htm#1097188</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Where it specifically states:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<span style="color: #000000">4.0 </span><span style="color: #000000">Claims </span>[h=3]<span style="color: #000000">4.1 </span><span style="color: #000000">Payable Claim</span>[/h]<span style="color: #000000">Insurance for loss or damage to insured, registered, or COD mail within the amount covered by the fee paid or within the indemnity limits for Express Mail as explained in <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/#1097235" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/#1097235">4.2</a> is payable for the following:</span> </p><p>a. Actual value of lost articles at the time and place of mailing (see <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/#1101304" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/#1101304">4.1n.</a> for bulk insured articles).</p><p>b. Cost of repairing a damaged article or replacing a totally damaged article not exceeding actual value of the article at the time of mailing.</p><p>c. Remittance due on a COD parcel not received by the sender, subject to the limitations set by the standards for COD service.</p><p>d. Reasonable costs incurred duplicating documents such as:</p><p>1. Copying service.</p><p>2. Notary fees.</p><p>3. Bonding fees for replacement of stock or bond certificates.</p><p>4. Reasonable attorney’s fees if required to replace the lost or damaged documents.</p><p>5. Other direct and necessary expense or cost, as determined by the USPS.</p><p>6. Face value of negotiable documents that cannot be reconstructed up to the amount of insurance coverage bought, but not to exceed the $25,000 maximum amount of insurance coverage available if sent by Registered Mail.</p><p>e. Extra cost of gift wrapping, if the gift-wrapped article was enclosed in another container when mailed.</p><p>f. Cost of outer container, if designed and constructed for the article sent.</p><p><b>g. Fair market value of stamps and coins of philatelic or numismatic value, as determined by a recognized stamp or coin dealer or current coin and stamp collectors newsletters and trade papers.</b></p><p>h. Federal, state, or city sales tax paid on articles lost or totally damaged.</p><p>i. Postage (not fee) paid for sending damaged articles for repair. (The USPS must be used for this purpose. Other reasonable transportation charges may be included if the USPS is not available.)</p><p>j. Cost of film stock or blank tape for photographic film, negatives, slides, transparencies, videotapes, laser disks, x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) prints, computerized axial tomography (CAT) scan prints, etc.</p><p>k. Cost of bees, crickets, or baby poultry destroyed by physical damage to the package or delay for which the USPS is responsible. (In the absence of definite evidence showing responsibility for death of these insects or animals, the USPS is presumed to be at fault if 10% or more are dead on delivery, and pays indemnity for all dead bees, crickets, or poultry; if less than 10%, the USPS is not presumed to be at fault.)</p><p>l. Cost of filing a lost ticket report with the airline.</p><p>m. Per page copying cost of lost or damaged blueprints, schematics, etc.</p><p>n. For bulk insured articles, indemnity is provided for the lesser of (1) the actual value of the article at the time of mailing or (2) the wholesale cost of the contents to the sender. </p><p>o. Except for Registered Mail, the maximum indemnity for negotiable items (defined as instruments that can be converted to cash without resort to forgery), currency, or bullion, is $15.00.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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