I need to ship few coins to Poland. Has anyone ever shipped there? If you ship USPS First Class or Priority, do you get any form of tracking?
I shipped Priority Mail last year and it went through fine. In December I shipped a fake ancient back to the Catawiki dealer who sold it to me. I shipped First Class with tracking, but the tracking never showed anything. It's like it didn't exist. I think the tracking was just messed up and the seller of fakes got his non-genuine coin back and got to keep my money.
According to the Postal Explorer (USPS) page for Country Conditions for Mailing — Poland Among 'Prohibitions' are: (Coins; bank notes; currency notes (paper money) including currency in circulation in the Polish Republic; traveler’s checks; platinum, gold, or silver (manufactured or not); precious stones; jewelry; and other valuable items) PS Form 2976-B placed inside PS Form 2976-E (plastic envelope) is the required customs form - if you truthfully indicate 'coins' on the form, the package will likely be seized or returned to sender by Polish authorities - you may or may not get the coins back. Link: https://pe.usps.com/text/imm/ps_008.htm International mailings to Poland are not tracked outside of the USA: Link: https://support.shippingeasy.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001748523 Hope this info is useful - good luck with your transaction
Exactly. What the heck is with all the "can't ship coins" B.S. with the postal authorities?? I can't ship a contemporary 500-Won coin either to, or from, Korea? Huh? A single 40-cent face-value coin? Postal authorities cracking down on coins is really keeping the international crime syndicates at bay, let me tell you...
The USPS postal website is so out of date it is laughable. Poland is in the EU, its the same as if you were mailing to the UK, Spain etc. Last time I looked at that site it said it was forbidden to send Horror Comics to the UK and Typewriter Ribbons to Italy
As of Jan 2018, in the IMM (International Mail Manual) of the USPS, the individual country listing for Poland still shows the coin prohibition as shown in post #3 - how you choose to circumvent the regs is up to you
I don`t have to circumvent the regs because they don`t apply to me, all I was saying is they are wrong and outdated.
Thefts in the mail get these things banned. The few big dealers who ship from overseas require that you pay for registered mail or they won't sell to you. They know their post office better than we do. Some u s dealers will still ship overseas but also require registered mail. After "losing" high dollar shipments and never getting their claims paid many dealers say no overseas shipments.
The problem with that is even with Register mail once the package leaves the US the MAXIMUM amount the post office will pay in compensation if it is lost of damaged is $50.
That is good to know. Learning all the rules before you put yourself at risk of a loss is also a good policy.
It's because mailing cash is illegal or they have some heritage laws about ancients so the USPS just automatically states that they're all illegal. That page is basically completely useless to figure out if you really can or not, the answer is almost always yes
I use PayPal to ship internationally. They streamline everything including the Customs form. For the item description, I put down "metal disc" with the correct 6 digit code for non-gold numismatics. I've never had an issue.
It's good to know these types of things. I generally don't do international shipping to begin with however I would have never even guessed you can't mail a coin to certain countries. Crazy.
I`ve shipped to just about every country in the world. There are no restrictions on shipping coins to Poland from the UK nor Canada or anywhere else that I know of apart from the US because of some notice on a USPS website. So much for freedom eh!
Well what is the problem then ? You are being given false information from an outdated website. Why don`t sellers just ship to Poland.
Here in Germany I don't know any postal company that would allow you to ship coins using a plain vanilla letter. And yet many people do it every day. Now within the EU you do not need a customs sticker, so it is basically a question of what gets "noticed". Unfortunately, if a coin gets lost in the mail, you won't get anything back. Therefore many coin dealers have special third party insurance contracts. An individual using Deutsche Post for example would have to use Value Mail (Wert National or Wert International); then coins with a value of €500 max can be shipped and are insured ... Christian
