On Mar 7, 2009, at 15:06 , Keith Whaley wrote:
Third, downplay the actual cost of the item.
If it's really expensive, I don't know what to tell you, but a small
package with thousands of dollars of worth of insurance is
automatically marked for attention!
I don't know how USPS handles it, but I'm with Ann. I'd use USPS
before any of the others, if it's really valuable.
My mother and my sister have over time (60 years or so) bought and
had repaired many valuable pieces of jewelry and pocket watches.
Their jewelers had always recommended USPS, small box, handwritten
address, return address label with flower or some such, return
receipt, NO INSURANCE. The jewelers use their home address or a P.O.
Box for a return address on the boxes they mail back to you. Never
lost an item going either way.
I've been told, but don't know for sure, that small batches of
diamonds are shipped between jewelers the same way, or were.
Joseph McAllister
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