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<p>[QUOTE="Registered Mail, post: 905449, member: 21936"]Before I retired last year I was a manager and the national Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Registered Mail in the Postal Service, my entire 40 years with USPS was involved with Registered Mail. I helped draft and implement the regulations as well as audited Post Offices all over the country. </p><p> </p><p>From what I have been reading is sounds like you are on top of the situation. Sending anything by Registered Mail is by far the safest way to go, however over the last few years the service has declined as far as delivery time. As you know the Postal Service is in a huge financial crunch and cutbacks have effected deliver times of all classes of mail, with the exception of Express Mail. </p><p> </p><p>The person who suggested you tape the heck out of the Priority boxes is correct, I have seen those boxes break open in transit many times. Once a precious metal dealer was sending 70 pounds of silver bars in a Priority box and it wasn’t taped properly, all of the silver bars slipped out of the box and had to be rewrapped.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Registered Mail, post: 905449, member: 21936"]Before I retired last year I was a manager and the national Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Registered Mail in the Postal Service, my entire 40 years with USPS was involved with Registered Mail. I helped draft and implement the regulations as well as audited Post Offices all over the country. From what I have been reading is sounds like you are on top of the situation. Sending anything by Registered Mail is by far the safest way to go, however over the last few years the service has declined as far as delivery time. As you know the Postal Service is in a huge financial crunch and cutbacks have effected deliver times of all classes of mail, with the exception of Express Mail. The person who suggested you tape the heck out of the Priority boxes is correct, I have seen those boxes break open in transit many times. Once a precious metal dealer was sending 70 pounds of silver bars in a Priority box and it wasn’t taped properly, all of the silver bars slipped out of the box and had to be rewrapped.[/QUOTE]
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