Currency Shipment Question

What is the safe way to send currency through the mail, e.g. $100 note?
USPS or UPS? Should you declare the contents and insure it or is that
asking for the package to get ripped off?

No shipper will allow you to insure cash.

Your best bet is to just play the odds. If the post office handles millions
of pieces of mail a day and delivers most to their intended recipients, why
assume that your money will disappear in the stream of envelopes just
because there is cash inside?

Just place the bill inside a few sheets of paper and it'll get where it's
supposed to. If it's particularly valuable, you can register with insurance,
but should declare it not as a banknote, but rather, as an engraved
portrait.

I've never had the USPS lose a registered letter within the US, but have had
problems with certain latin american countries.

On 1/22/04 7:41 AM, in article
, "Harvey"
wrote:

What is the safe way to send currency through the mail, e.g. $100 note?
USPS or UPS? Should you declare the contents and insure it or is that
asking for the package to get ripped off?

If it is legal to send money via the post it would be better to
declare them.
But in most countries is not allowed to send money via the post.Then
you can hide them in booklet or magazine.It is good and tested method


Ivo IBNS #9092

"Harvey" wrote in message ws.com...
What is the safe way to send currency through the mail, e.g. $100 note?
USPS or UPS? Should you declare the contents and insure it or is that
asking for the package to get ripped off?

"Ivo Shahanov" wrote in message
om...
If it is legal to send money via the post it would be better to
declare them.
But in most countries is not allowed to send money via the post.Then
you can hide them in booklet or magazine.It is good and tested method


Ivo IBNS #9092


Had that done to me, and thought it was such a good idea I do it too now. I
picked up some travel brochures from our local scenic sites and put notes in
them.

Dave


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From: "Harvey"

What is the safe way to send currency through the mail, e.g. $100 note?

If you're *really* worried, send it in a regular #10 envelope between stiff
cardboard inserts, via Registered Mail (USPS). Costs about $7-$8.

The postal officials have to sign responsibility for it each step of the way,
and when not in human hands it gets locked up.

Personally, I go with placing a note in a plastic note sleeve and sending it in
a greeting card. For more important ones, there's "Letter-Priority" mail.
But, that's just me.

List it as an "artistic engraved print", which would be the truth.

8-]


Coin Saver

On 23 Jan 2004 16:30:22 GMT, ojunk (Coin Saver)
wrote:

List it as an "artistic engraved print", which would be the truth.

Unless it's a modern note, in which case you could be had up for
contravention of truth in advertising statutes.

Padraic.

la cieurgeourea provoer mal trasfu
ast meiyoer ke 'l andrext ben trasfu.

Unless it's a modern note, in which case you could be had up for
contravention of truth in advertising statutes.

I list them as "financial documents".
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My Obsolete Banknotes Page
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