Who thinks the mail man is a huge breach of security?

I know,,,Your right. I was just trying to ease my own worries,,,,,Thanks for making me paRinoIdeD ...Again...:desk:.....LOL

 

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This is Soooo true . My wife's father collected coins for many years and after his passing,, His son had helped himself to this collection everytime he needed money without saying anything to his mother and by the time they found this out about half ,,,maybe more of it was gone....and he had collected coins for many years starting back in the early 50's. God only knew what he had.

 

My sister works for a casino in a small state. About 3 months ago a lady came in wanting to exchange half dollars for currency. They were all Bust and SL halves. The cashier tried to tell her they were more valuable than half a dollar, the lady simply said I know, but I hate my husband.

Be nice to your wives gentlemen.

 

Part of the reason for the divorce was she spent all the money at the Casino....

 

True Story...
When my brother was about 8 or 9, and we lived right next to a gas station, he would go visit with the owner. This was way before self serve, so the owner had a lot to do. My brother was very personable and charming, could socialize like crazy with adults he didn't know, and also had no conceptualization of what someone else's belongings meant to them and could not conceive that "stealing" was wrong. Of course the owner of the gas station had a hard lesson to learn coming to him.
This owner had a floor safe, which was usually kept locked, I presume, and under a mat. Well, he had no Idea that my brother, when visiting, had observed that or cared. One time my brother was visiting, the owner had the safe open, but was called to help a customer, and he quickly closed it up, but did not lock it. He went to help the customer and was gone a few minutes. When he came back, my brother was gone along with a number of rolls of dimes from his safe. My brother never admitted to it (to anyone but me), but I helped him spend the money (about 5 or 10 dollars worth) and the owner of the gas station banned my brother from being over there.

Later on, it was only when my brother was in his 30's that he began to understand that other peoples belongings were not his for the taking, and it took people stealing his stuff to get him that far I believe. I call him a "late bloomer" regarding that. Loved him so much but couldn't trust him for that, and I think my brother really did have no concept of that. My brother was a thief from the time he was 5 on to just before he died. Maybe because of a fall he had when he was 1-1/2 (fell from top of bleachers to ground and landed partially on his head), I don't know.

 

Thats to funny.

 

Thats a very sad story about your bother,,,,,Sorry to hear that he passed away

 

I don't know...I get boat magazines, yet I don't own a boat. My wife gets tech magazines, yet we have very little in the way of techy devices in our home. Sometimes people read about things they don't necessarily have, but just because they enjoy it. I think mailmen are much aware of that. You think every person on your street has erectile disfunction or is in default with their loans just because they get daily advertisements for such things?
Guy

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpAANsoG8I

 

You must not know my neighborhood.......

Seriously, I understand your point, but coins are a little far out there for a non-collector to wish to read. It could happen, and I agree with your point since I have books and magazines covering antiquities and types of coins I don't own, yet I DO own other antiquities and coins, so I think its somewhat indicative at the very least. If not indicative that I own coins, at least indicative I have a refined enough taste to maybe own other valuables. Face it, The Celator probably does not get mailed to very many housing projects or redneck shacks with absolutely no valuables inside.

I understand the point of junk mail, yet NN doesn't send out, "Your last chance to resubscribe" to a large percentage of the population, lol.

Just my opinion man, but I respect yours as well.

Chris

 

Finding the [blanks] who robbed you, man how did you control yourself? I would have wanted to go Medieval on them. I don't have much of a temper, but for some reason thieves are right up there with child pervs in my book.

If they are still alive you are a better man than I Doug.

Chris

 

Sometimes you just have to do it yourself. Its not like they are going to track these people down,,,,,They wait for someone to call them and say.....Here they are come and get them.

 

My neighborhood had a rash of mail thefts. Your mail carrier is likely to be trustworthy, but the meth-head who steals your mail by definition is not.

 

Yeah I agree with this.

I know my mail carrier and the mail lady at the post office. I chat it up with both of them. They know I get frequent packages from Amazon and other places, but I don't worry about them stealing things. However, I do worry about the freak shows that live around me. I had an ipod stolen out of my car over the summer. I live in hickville so I was annoyed. While I guess no one really knows what could happen, I wouldn't worry about the coin mags that come or the unwanted stuff. Unless you live in a small town like me I doubt they even notice this stuff.

 

I hate meth heads. The local sheriff won't let me shoot 'em though.

 

An open hunting season, a mere one day a year.:devil: - a kind of help the community and society in general day.

 

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You can sign me up for that one.....:sniper: -- -- -- ____:missing-tooth:____

 

I think you could get a bunch of local citizens to band together in the case of drug addicts stealing mail. If you set some traps for suspected culprits, you might catch the sobs.

Another thought here; are obvious markings on the outside of the package "rare gold coins inside" or pictures of gleaming bullion bars problems to getting insurance reimbursement if the box is stolen?

I have had a UPS store mailbox for years with no problems on the security front.

When I lost the two oz.s of gold that went to Ron Paul's organization F.R.E.E. address without being delivered, was there any recourse without insurance? It was a priority parcel.

 

Here is something interesting. Just in the last week my wife has left the garage door open all night long, open all day while we were out to work, left the front door open (not unlocked, but friigin open) all day while were at work and nothing happened. I got on her pretty hard about that, but we all make mistakes. My daughter will be visiting later this year with a new 16 year old foster child, whom they love, but I will probably hide my collection for some of the reasons mentioned in this thread.