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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 2134083, member: 71234&quot;]I sometimes wonder how I managed to ship out about 41,000 antique and collectable items all over the world with a loss rate of next to nothing. (about 1 in 500)</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, I don&#039;t know, but everything went out by basic untracked airmail, hand addressed, with a customs form saying as near as possible to &#039;Boring Rubbish&#039;&nbsp; valued at &#039;Not worth stealing&#039;. This may have helped.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anything but basic airmail says &#039;Steal Me, I am Valuable&#039;. Outside the US anything with a bar code on it is considered valuable, because outside the US, only very valuable stuff is sent with some form of Special Delivery with barcode tracking. US USPS users who get tracking of just about anything really do not appreciate this cultural difference.</p><p><br /></p><p>The joke is that you do&nbsp; not need tracking anyway, it has no magic powers to safe guard your items,&nbsp; and the objective, which ic not to lose if the package goes missing can be achieved much more cheaply with transit insurance or self insurance funded by your buyers.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for buyers, if they pay with Paypal they have a guarantee if the item fails to arrive, as indeed they do with CC purchases.</p><p><br /></p><p>Horror stories fill all discussion boards, because they are unusual. Good news is not news, and you don&#039;t get the balance, unless someone with a lot of experiences says that the horror stories are very rare exceptions, not normalpractice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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