The Old Dog Demonstrates: How to Mail Valuables Without Having Them Stolen!
Over the past few years I have mailed three fairly valuable packages, one to England and two to Canada. All three were sent registered and all three were stolen! Yikes! Just yesterday I mailed 2 0ne ounce silver coins to @papa-pepper and naturally I'm a little bit concerned about them arriving safely. Would you like to see how I packaged them so that they could be sent as a registered letter rather than a parcel and hopefully in a way that they won't be attractive to thieves? Let's have a look then!
Why am I Mailing Two Silver Coins to @papa-pepper?
Good question! Last week @papa-pepper private messaged me informing me that he was sending me a newly minted one ounce Steemit Silver Round! He then posted about it which you can see here. Why is he gifting me a Silver Round? Just because he wanted to! You see @papa-pepper knows that there is "more happiness in giving than in receiving" and he's a really happy guy! He's also a super community builder and he regularly send things to other Steemers! No wonder he's a Steemit Super Star!
You know what though? Papa-Pepper also knows that "if you practice giving you shall receive" and it's because of this that yesterday I found myself preparing a package for him! Just because I also enjoy giving and it has been a lot of fun!
These are the two coins that I'm sending to @papa-pepper! If they get there I'm sure that he'll like them! Let's hope that it's not a BIG if!
Here's How I Did it Step by Step!
- In order to protect them and stop them from moving around I cut holes into two layers of cardboard
- I then kept trimming and weighing the package because in order for it to qualify as a letter it had to be under 100 grams and less than 2 cm thick! That took a lot of experimenting. If the package was was over 100 grams it would have had to have been shipped as a parcel and it would have cost me about $20.00 more! I think that a parcel is also more attractive to postal thieves! What a world!
- I then covered the top and bottom of the sandwiched coins with paper and glued it into place.
- After all of that I placed the finished sandwich in a small light weight bubble pack envelope and it was off to the post office.
In total I paid about $11.00 and for this I got a receipt with a QR code with which I can track the route and progress of the parcel!
After tracing the coins I used a box cutter to cut holes through two layers of triple corrugated cardboard!
I then had to keep trimming away cardboard and weighing the package as it had to be under 100 grams!
In the end, ounce I had kept trimming and had covered the top and bottom with paper which I glued into place I was at 88 grams!
After I had added the envelope with the address label I came in at 97 grams! Wow, that was fun! Now it was off to the post office!
Nowadays when you pay the extra for a registered letter (in this case about $8.00) you get a tracking code!
Let's See Where The Coins Are About 18 Hours After Mailing Them!
Using the app that I downloaded onto the phone I can now see that the coins went from the mall where I mailed them in Ticino, (the most southerly point of Switzerland) to Zurich and they have now left Zurich. Hopefully they are being put on a plane right now and ready for their trans Atlantic voyage!
I'm Going to Have a Lot of Fun Tracing The Coins' Journey to @papa-pepper!
What do You Think?
- Did I do a decent job packaging and disguising the coins?
- Will they arrive safely into @papa-pepper's hands?
- Have you had parcels stolen in the past?
I hope that you enjoyed this article about "How to Mail Valuables Without Having Them Stolen!"
Until next time,
@kus-knee (The Old Dog)
Great job packaging in deed and an excellent article too, even if it is a technical one in some regards. It kept its original @kus-knee heart!
Thanks for sharing, I sure hope the whole sharing is going to be smooth on either end of the equation.
Keep on Steeming, smiling, taking good care and thriving on! Namaste :)
Wow! You spent a huge effort for sending these two little silver birds! I think they will arrive undamaged.
Bye the way: Annother possibility would have been to send him some SBD. They would arrive after a few seconds. With this amount of money papa-pepper was able to buy exactly the same coins in his local coin shop.
Annother way: Find a coin shop which accepts bitcoin near to papa-pepper's home. Buy the coins there and order the shipment to papa-pepper.
I also love silver coins.
You are right about sending the the SBD's! Much easier for me but not as much fun. I paid about $21.00 each for those coins and now to buy the same two one will cost me about $32.00 and the other about $38.00!
I know that you like silver coins because the first time we met you had a few with you! I've been collecting them since I was a kid!
Interesting, I would have just made cardboard sandwiches secured with rubber band.
I used to ship a lot of things but normally not internationally, and I've had much better success than you have, luckily. I think you will be good with the measures you put in place as you shouldn't be able to tell what the package contains when handling it and I think that is the main thing. I've also spent a lot of time on the DNM reddit so I know how the vendors do stealth as well.
Can't wait to see @papa-pepper ''s opening video, I'm sure he will enjoy those beauties!
Reminder @sixersfeds - you are a WINNER in my contest, please find me on chat :)
They will sure arrive safe ! Not only by perfect packin but choosing the QUALITY POSTNG by a Swiss company !
And what a nice guesture, @papa-pepper will be more then happy with those coins !
They will sure arrive safe ! Not only by perfect packin but choosing the QUALITY POSTNG by a Swiss company !
And what a nice guesture, @papa-pepper will be more then happy with those coins !
hi dear @kus-knee, you realy done a great job and told us that how to mail valuables without having them stolen. you shared us whole process of sending the gift to great @papa-pepper, in this way its sure that @papa-pepper received it safely. any way nice and interesting post. keep it up.../
The package look really good!
The coins are really nice and i hope that arrives ti him!
Fortunately never!✌
You have perfectly packed the coins. I had an opportunity. I wrote a swimsuit to my daughter, the parcel did not reach the deadline and the Internet store returned the money. Within a month I received the parcel. It turns out that the swimsuit was given to me for free. our mail is to blame.
Very good analysis
Thanks for post share