Hi experts, what is the best shipping service to use for shipping cards that are $5000 or more within the USA? Thank you
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Registered mail USPS. You can fully insure the $5000 and it comes with signature confirmation. Most secure way to ship anything in the country. Look into it at USPS. People ship diamonds and gold bars and family heirlooms this way. I do this whenever I send my most valuable piles to PSA.
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Thank you!
Registered Mail isn’t a bad idea however will commonly take 10+ days to deliver. I subscribe to the thought process of - the less time USPS has the item the less of a chance it has to get lost/stolen/damaged. I ship anything under 25k USPS Express and over 25k FedEx Overnight. I don’t insure because should something happen you’ll spend months of your life fighting it and never win. Take Leonharts insured lost Charizard for example.
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FedEx overnight has always been great for me.
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i normally just do fedex, no need to add crazy insurance as those are less suspect.
Forgot to mention you can add priority to it. So it doesn’t need to take a long time. And it has no chance of getting stolen because each carrier has to hand sign for it. It doesn’t get transported in the same freights as all other mail. If it were to get stolen, they would know exactly who did it. There’s no chance. And the matter of the insurance being suspect? That is a fallacy. The people carrying it have no idea what is inside and no idea what it is insured for. It doesn’t say it on the box. But like I said, it could say there’s gold bars on it. Good luck stealing that when there is a paper trail that you must place yourself on to even get possession of it in the transit.
This Leonhart example? Several things. He didn’t use registered mail. That’s the problem. He claimed he paid for 5k insurance but showed no part of the receipt indicating that, and when priority express costs about $27 anyway, and the receipt showed $32, I’m doubting he paid for 5k worth of insurance. But Priority Express comes with $100. So they said they would give him the $100. I promise you if you paid for $50k worth of insurance on gold bars and had the proof of the gold bars existing that, if it EVER happened (it wouldn’t), that would be getting escalated very quickly to the top people regarding that employee that stole it whom they have evidence against, and you would be getting that money.
Shhh I sell millions more than you do on eBay each year you aren’t going to change my mind. A handful of the things you said are factually incorrect anyway. The OP wanted options to ship a relatively inexpensive package and multiple options were provided to them.
@brendantheclayboy I send all my registered mail in priority flat rate boxes when I can. This doesnt travel at the speed of priority. Security trumps speed always, though theoretically it is faster than non priority registered. It usually takes 1-2 weeks.
@uponeagleswings for people transacting hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year your advice is great. For people who want insurance because they cant stand a 5 figure loss then registered is 100% the way to go, bar none. Leonhart did NOT have any insurance on his shipment at all as mentioned he paid about $30 and priority mail to insure the $5k limit is about $100. It was likely a misunderdtsnding between him and the shit clerk he used. Registered mail to insure the $50k limit is about $120.
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First of all dude I’m not trying to change your mind, this is all info for the OP and a general discussion on the ideas. I don’t care what you do. I agree with gottaketchumall, and that’s the point. The OP doesn’t seem at all to be on your level of selling, and I figured he’s asking because he’s concerned about 5k being a big deal, so registered is a safe option for something he might not be able to afford losing, hence his coming to E4 to ask for advice. I’m not advising you, I’m answering your statement. Thanks for informing me that you’re this ebay expert. I don’t care–I have shipped simply enough to know what I am doing as well, thank you. $5,000 is not inexpensive haha. What are you talking about? That’s a LOT of money for most people man. Not everyone is like you–you’re being presumptuous saying that.
I have done “priority registered” and it went some 500 miles in 2 days. I am not certain about cross continental, but either way that doesn’t change the nature of the safety of transit of what is actually a very expensive package. But it did speed it up for me in my experiences. Other than that clarification, I said nothing factually incorrect.
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you gave your idea I gave the OP another possible option that’s it. I didn’t tag you or ask for feedback.
@uponeagleswings you just discouraged against insurance which I felt was unfounded (as well as theft regarding registered packages that doesn’t ever happen), considering your example was one which wasn’t applicable–that’s why I quoted you. After that we took a wrong turn. I just wouldn’t advise the OP or any inexperienced but cautious inquirer against insurance on registered when you use an example like that. It might needlessly worry them about protecting their shipment of expensive cards. You don’t need to ask for feedback. It is fair for a discussion board to have someone answer someone else when they want to clarify or point out an incorrect/misleading/etc. statement for the person asking. That’s all I did, not critique the preference portion of your response to them. Thanks.