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Posted By: Dan Mathewson

I've already gotten a $1,007 settlement check from the USPS for slight damage they did to my 1913 Fan For a Fan, when they opened it during shipping thru customs and did some sight damage to it.

I reamed them for it. It was right after 9/11, and everything was mayhem. They accepted the SCD Catalog description of its value, and went from there. As the USPS is a Federal Agency, no other Federal Agency can say that collectible values are arbitrary. They've done it in my case, thus they have a precedent for accepting those values.