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Message:: [QUOTE="ToughCOINS, post: 1852131, member: 20480"]I've told this story many times, but this might be the first time on CT . . . Over the years, I've only lost 7 packages in the mail . . . some inbound, and some outbound.  Now I deal in all kinds of coins . . . used to do lots of nickel, some copper, and the rest silver and gold . . . at the time, the gold was far less than 50% of my volume. Of those 7 shipments, EVERY ONE was a gold coin.  What are the chances?  Well, if you assume exactly half the shipments were gold, the odds are 1/128 . . . Never telling the clerks what was in the parcels, I cannot explain how that happened, but I have got to believe someone had a way of telling what parcels to go after.  These were not all taken, or pilfered in the same location, but a few of them appeared to have been. Those were the days when I insured my outbound parcels, so the thieves may have examined the total cost of shipment on the postage labels and, from the light weight of the parcels, deduced that the items inside were valuable.  For that reason, I now use private insurance instead of USPS insurance.  Since I made that change 4 years ago, I haven't lost a single coin in the mail.  Not one . . . Amazing.[/QUOTE]