Originally Posted by sb1 (Post 2545906)

Not sure, but they did actually have the card and the buyer now has it in possession. I don't think it would be my choice to send a five-figure card to...but.

I use and encourage anyone with any sizeable amount of incoming cards of value to get a PO Box at USPS Post Office, not a franchise box. Your mail will be waiting on you, instead of you waiting on it.

The biggest percentage of loss/theft from USPS, UPS and Fed/Ex does not come while in transit from hub to hub, but while out for delivery, either due to theft or mis delivery. A PO Box eliminates the vast majority of possible misdoings.

And if you make friends with your postal clerks/Postmaster you will be amazed at how helpful they can be if something does go off track. They have a separate tracking system that can locate a package and even tell you what bin number it is in!

Originally Posted by jayshum (Post 2545895)

That's good to know. I would have only thought it was the seller's insurance that would pay for something not getting delivered to me. However, to get more than $200 from my insurance company, it would need to be sent with signature confirmation. I may have to start requesting that for any expensive cards I purchase.

Originally Posted by Rich Klein (Post 2545880)

If REA is suing Fed Ex, why continue to use them?

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards (Post 2545909)

Amen

Originally Posted by calvindog (Post 2545907)

There was nothing like an REA closing night. Once a year, ended at like 4:30 am. We stayed up all night complaining to each other, laughing at how pathetic we were to be staying up all night, guessing the closing time; and the lots in the once a year REA auction were second to none. I can still remember cards I didn't buy from those auctions for which I feel regret decades later. Rob was the best auction house owner ever. And only someone like Brian could come in and maintain the level of professionalism, honesty and (still) great auction lots. The auctions are diluted as there's one a month, but Brian has really done REA proud. My only continuing criticism: no orange tape on the packages (esoteric Mastro joke that used to be funny).

Originally Posted by sb1 (Post 2545906)

A PO Box eliminates the vast majority of possible misdoings.

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B (Post 2545979)

Only if the individual responsible for putting the mail in the p.o. boxes isn't completely inept. I can't tell you how many pieces of mail for other people's boxes I've found in my own, not to mention the mail I'm expecting that doesn't ever seem to arrive.

How difficult is this? It requires one one working eye, one working arm and a second grade reading comprehension.

Originally Posted by jayshum (Post 2545982)

Mistakes happen, even to the best of us. :D

Originally Posted by calvindog (Post 2545907)

There was nothing like an REA closing night. Once a year, ended at like 4:30 am. We stayed up all night complaining to each other, laughing at how pathetic we were to be staying up all night, guessing the closing time; and the lots in the once a year REA auction were second to none. I can still remember cards I didn't buy from those auctions for which I feel regret decades later. Rob was the best auction house owner ever. And only someone like Brian could come in and maintain the level of professionalism, honesty and (still) great auction lots. The auctions are diluted as there's one a month, but Brian has really done REA proud. My only continuing criticism: no orange tape on the packages (esoteric Mastro joke that used to be funny).