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Message:: [QUOTE="Dave M, post: 674346, member: 17469"]"insure delivery in the US" is key here. If you mean "send FROM the US TO the US" that's very different from "FROM SOMEWHERE TO the US", as I'm painfully learning (see my "stolen French banknotes" thread). In the US, a signature on Form 3849 (the slip the postman asks you to sign when you receive a package) does not release you from making an insurance claim against a loss. That is, you can sign the slip, and later that day open the package and if something is amiss, you can still file a claim (and presumably receive insurance coverage). In my case, FROM France, to US, I am having trouble with this particular situation. In France, when you sign the slip (whether registered or other type of signed mail), you release all insurance coverage. So you must open all parcels in front of the postman before you sign, and then refuse them if all is not in order. The issue being in the US, of course, is that the postman is not accustomed to, and typically does not want to wait around while you open packages. He's been trained to the US policy, and will gladly tell you that there's no need for him to wait, that your signature only acknowledges receipt of the package, etc, etc. Dave[/QUOTE]