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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 24644577, member: 36248&quot;]I have shipped many coin packages using Registered Mail so I have a good idea of how it works.&nbsp; Additionally, it just so happens that the industry that I work in is Direct Mail, so I also have an intimate behind-the-scenes view of USPS. I work for a company that spends upwards of 15 million dollars a year on postage alone.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you take the insurance cost out of RM, the cost of sending RM drops drastically.&nbsp;&nbsp; Hence, HWI comes into play. </p><p><br /></p><p>If your yearly premium is say $350 a year for HWI, and you can ship all day-every day for $0 insurance at USPS, then that $350 pays for itself very quickly.&nbsp;&nbsp; With a valuable enough package, it might pay for itself in a single shipment versus adding insurance to each USPS/Fedex/UPS package.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your mileage may vary, and my suggestion might not be appropriate for everyone.</p><p><br /></p><p>All that being said, No system is perfectly secure or works 100% of the time, especially systems that depend on humans doing things correctly and consistently.&nbsp;&nbsp; You are not the first person to have trouble with Registered Mail, and won&#039;t be the last, but it still offers some additional protections not available to other shipping methods.&nbsp; &nbsp; Sorry you had a bad experience.</p><p><br /></p><p>My understanding of what HWI requires to benefit from their shipping coverage might be out of date, as other members here [USER=88896]@Deplorabledan[/USER] say you dont need to use RM.&nbsp;&nbsp; In that case, you might be able to ship insured through HWI and use something like priority mail that has more traditional scanning/tracking.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>p.s.&nbsp;&nbsp; The USPS occasionally loses pallets of mine with 80,000 mail pieces, so you might imagine a single package is VERY easy to lose...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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