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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Rhys
I am trying to decide what the best way to ship a very expensive item through the mail. The value of the item(s) is between $40,000-$50,000. I am strongly considering just getting a plane ticket and hand delivering it at a cost of about $300 total and a day of my time. I know some companies wont honor the inured value on collectibles like this. The thought of something happening to this package would really eat at me while it was in tansit and I would never live it down if something happened to it. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: barrysloate
I feel confident enough that if I had a package of that value I would send it registered mail and insure it for the maximum 25K. I've actually done it before. It will cost about $40-45. But I don't know how large it is, as you didn't tell us. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: robert a
Hi Rhys. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Lance
Certified mail is the absolute safest way. It requires a signature eveytime it passes hands. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: barrysloate
Lance- you may be thinking of registered mail. That at least allows insurance. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Joe D.
Rhys, |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Anonymous
WRONG!! |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: barrysloate
Rhys- if you have two items and they can be put into 2 boxes insured for 25K each, and that gives you peace of mind, go the registered route and save yourself the plane trip. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Jason L
To my house! |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Jeff Prizner
so what's the item? |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Lance
Registered...DUH! |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Corey R. Shanus
Depends how fragile your item(s) is(are). If they are not too, then registered insured is a good option. It will take a bit longer, but is a very reliable cost-effective way of shipping. If you have a fragile item, then I always go the overnight option with Fedex or UPS. I just hate having the item with the carrier any longer than I have to (and on this score I never ship over weekends). UPS offers better insurance choices than Fedex, but I have heard of horror stories (one happening to me many years ago) with the package getting mangled on the conveyor belt. If you don't have your own insurance and your only option to have it insured is by the carrier, then I would probably go with UPS one-day and package the hell out of the item. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Steve Murray
I have just the tape for you. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: barrysloate
That's good tape, don't you think? |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Andrew
Take the $300 flight, that way the package never leaves your hands and you`ll still have $49,700 left over! Ha |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Sean BH
Take the flight; you can probably write off as a business expense and you earn frequent flier miles! |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Jeff Kennedy
You can go beyond the $25K limit that is stamped onto everything that you see pertaining to registered mail. They just figure that in most cases people don't send more then $25K worth of stuff through the mail. I was quoted the price of $38.75 for the first $25K then you start adding an additional $1.10 per $1K worth of coverage after that. Seems the best way to ship if you ask me. Correct me if I am wrong but with UPS, it won't be under lock and key like it will be if sent registered. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Red
The maximum of insurance coverage with Registered Mail is $25,000.00. If you declare a value of $50,000 the additional fee is for the PO's increased charge to handle such a package, not insurance. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Darren
Fly. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: bruce Dorskind
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: 1880nonsports
- that you can't recover more than 25,000.00 if the package were lost. I have sent a couple of 30,000.00 packages registered mail and took the chance on the balance. Registered does make me feel safe due to the locking/signing. That having been said - nice problem to have anyway . Even if I threw my wife in I got nuttin worth that. Bruce made a good point as well.... |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: ramram
Read the carrier's fine print. As you mentioned, some carriers don't cover certain kinds of collectibles. That doesn't mean that they won't take your money...just that it may not be covered if something happens. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
for a long time.........and own a UPS Store........ |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: leon
I've had 4 transactions of over 50k. Two were hand delivered and 2 were over nighted....no issues. I had to hold my breath on the over nighted ones though...regards |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Joe_G.
I've used USPS Registered and insured for all my items approaching $1000 for a couple years with no issues until now. I'm currently waiting on an item that was sent Dec 27th (20 days ago). I'm requesting that the sender of the item issue a claim from where it was sent now that we are approaching 21 days (takes 3 weeks before a claim can be filed). I'm more than a bit concerned as the item is the nicest copy I've seen of a very rare card/cabinet. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Jim
This group is slipping. 24 responses and not one suggested cutting the card in half and insuring both halves for $25000. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Brett
If you can afford to own a $50,000 baseball card, then you shouldn't have a problem buying a plane ticket to go pick it up... lol |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: cmoking
"If you can afford to own a $50,000 baseball card, then you shouldn't have a problem buying a plane ticket to go pick it up... lol" |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Jim Manos
I would send via registered mail. Trust me I learned. I am still in a legal battle with the *******. Know your client. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Anonymous
Rhys, |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Josh Evans
This is what I can tell you from my experience of having sent millions of dollars through the mails including pieces and packages worth from a few bucks to hundreds of thousands of dollars. |
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What is the best way to ship a very expensive item
Posted By: Rhys
Thanks for all the responses. I think I am going to eat the plane ticket and take it as a tax deduction and just enjoy meeting another extremely nice collector face to face. I agreed before the deal was finalized that it would be my responsibility to get the items to him and basically figured several hundred dollars of the price into the final amount so I am not really out anything. |
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