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Posted By: barrysloate

I'm so confident with registered mail that I would send packages valued over 25K that way and just insure them for the maximum allowed. Obviously, if you are sending 100K packages that's a much bigger risk, but I never send any that valuable. When I sent the T206 Plank from my last auction there was that card plus some others and the total value was over 40K. I still sent it registered, it cost me about $36 including postage and insurance, and it arrived safe and sound in about three days. UPS will insure up to 50K but you pay 35 cents per $100, so a 50K package will cost $175 to insure, and with shipping you are approaching $200- and I think it is less reliable.