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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 1113707, member: 112&quot;]Well, you experienced about all of the same bumps in the road that pretty much all first time submitters, or basically anybody who tries to mail coins, run into. Of course all of them can easily be avoided if you know what the standard proceedure is - but when you don&#039;t, well it can be pretty frustrating.</p><p><br /></p><p>You see, in the US there is a rule that the US Post Office (and UPS and Fed Ex) has - they do not allow you to send money (cash) in the mail. The reason for this is pretty simple and understandable - people steal cash from the mail. So to avoid that issue they don&#039;t allow you to do it. So when you tell the Post Office that you are mailing &quot;coins&quot; - to them that means you are mailing money - a no-no.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you overcame that by saying you are mailing metal disk, that works. But perhaps the easiest thing to say is that you are mailing collectibles. This term is also important when it comes to insurance. For if you try to insure your &quot;metal disk&quot; for $5000 - you&#039;re going to get some pretty strange looks and most likely questions. But if you say you want to insure collectibles for $5000 - nobody will even think twice about it. That covers the &quot;how to&quot; of mailing and insurance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding the flip issue, you raise a concern that many others also have. They fear they will do some harm to the coins by handling them, placing them in flips etc. The TPGs allow you to do just what you did, leave the coins in the original holders. However, they will charge you $1 per coin to remove them from those holders.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now import and custom rules are something that US collectors rarely have to worry about, but for you folks acrross the pond it can present some problems. Of course there is an easy way to deal with it, it&#039;s just that most folks aren&#039;t aware of the solution. That is that PCGS has offices in Europe. And mailing stuff to another European country is much easier than mailing something to the US and most of those problems and issues go away when you do it that way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you&#039;re probably going to say something like - well why don&#039;t they tell you these things ? Well, they would, if you asked the right questions, of the right people. The Post Office, UPS, the customs office, even PCGS itself - those are not the right people. The right people are here on this forum. They are people who have run into all of these issues, and more, many times. And they know how to deal with them. They know how to make it easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>So next time just come to the forum and explain what you want to do, and you&#039;ll get step by step instructions on how to go about it. The easy way <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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