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Joe D.when you ship - you are putting faith in others.
when you carry the card yourself - you are taking control of exactly how the item is transported.
I recently shipped an about $2K package to a fellow N54er via USPS Overnight Insured.
Although it was insured for the $2K - and was to get to the person next day - there was a period of days.... DAYS..... where the post office had no idea where the package was. The official response during those days was.... lets just wait and hopefully it gets scanned somewhere at some point. The package eventually found its way to the recipient. But - the fact that it was MIA for days (it actually might have been a week) left me uneasy.
Where I have a choice - I drop off in person.
Otherwise I ship, insure, and cross my fingers.