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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;john59, post: 2109106, member: 73760&quot;]afantiques:</p><p><br /></p><p>You&#039;re very wrong on this. The only way you can send safely out of the country by USPS is by express mail, registered mail, priority mail and all of these you can insure. If you cannot insure it, like I said before, in Central and South America and parts of Europe your packages will get stolen. You can put pencils on the customs forms, and they will open it and take it. </p><p><br /></p><p>The big problem with the US sellers and the European sellers now, is the shipping cost. Yes you can get private insurance and some of those will not cover certain countries. Some of them will not cover numismatic items, gold or silver (jewelry). </p><p><br /></p><p>All mail in the US goes at a snail pace now because of the closing of many of the sorting facilities. It&#039;s not going to get any better. I know this from first hand because I send out about 50 packages a week. To the US, a package used to take 3-5 days now it takes anywhere from 10-30 days. Depending on the European country, it can average 11 days for just a simple letter. </p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s why private companies are popping up all over these countries, which you still have to pay the postage of the country of origin. They take the items through customs and then deposit it into the US postal system. It&#039;s the same way if you use a private company to send to other countries. Most of them have private delivery for items or you have to pick them up at customs. </p><p><br /></p><p>One other thing, if you use the USPS you have to hope that the country you&#039;re sending it to scans it. Because 99% of the time they don&#039;t bother to scan it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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