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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;J Dagger, post: 10373304, member: 10944&quot;]I’ve never shipped out high $ amounts of metal. Just pieces of jewelry mostly under 1k. When I ship very small valuable items though I tend to put them in much larger boxes than is necessary. Particularly when dealing with metals. I think there are smart people in the system that know to check packages for weight/density vs. package size. Also if they see insurance/registered/signature required etc. on small dense packages they might assume those are good ones for stealing or opening. They can tear a package to check contents and keep it rolling through the system. For this reason I always tape the ever loving hell out of any package that contains small valuable items. There is zero way anything in that category of mine is accidentally getting opened in the system. It would require premeditated tampering or an errant whaling harpoon to create a hole or gap in the cardboard flaps. </p><p><br /></p><p>The only option I can see for you outside of selling in person or switching carriers is breaking your shipments up a bit more. That eats into profit, but maybe the peace of mind is worth it. Overall I find the usps is very reliable. I’ve sent probably close to 5k packages in five years. Only one or two ever was permanently lost that I can recall. One was going to Canada, not sure if that matters. I do find that if one is lost in the system that once I file a missing mail claim (rather than insurance claim) that’s when they usually show up finally. I don’t use insurance much. I do ship FedEx and UPS but only when it costs a good bit less. I don’t diverge from usps for any other reason usually. I do avoid shipping extremely fragile items via UPS. Nearly every issue I’ve ever had with damage during shipping was under the watch of UPS. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately at this point I think there are people in the delivery systems that know what addresses belong to the big players in the metal game. Those packages are probably going to get targeted no matter what. You got lucky it sounds like. It would have been a huge blow to lose that package. Overall I feel ok playing the numbers game with the system but I try to take precautions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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