PSA: USPS Registered Mail is NOT safe. It is NOT tracked, NOT signed for as it changes hands, and does NOT require signature for delivery

[savvy]

For this very reason, the company our daughter works for uses an internal company courier to deliver anything that exceedes FedEx shipping insurance levels: 100k for domestic and 25k international.

 

[RRfromR]

That’s a bummer for consumers. So if I were to ship jewelry, I‘d use USPS so I could insure it but then they wouldn’t pay out claim if the item was lost. That’s just so not reliable at all. Who can one ship jewelry with then?

I think this industry was very local for a very long time or run through a classic supply chain to the retailer level. People used to go to the local store and buy stuff or had it done with the local jeweler. I don't think the shipping or insurance has caught with the current modern times of selling private person to private person or on platform, like IG. Because the item is small and the value is very high, it is a very risky business to transport and insure an item during transportation. Not a lot of companies are willing to do it.

 

[Slickk]

This is infuriating. I’m so sorry @yssie
I wanted to add my experience. Even though I was aware of your terrible shipping problem, I was convinced by the USPS clerk to use Registered to ship my high-value jewelry package. It was supposed to be delivered two days later. Lol
Firstly, on day two it got stuck in Queens, NY for over 26 hours. I shipped it Wednesday and it’s still in my state two days later?!?
I visited my local PO on a Saturday and the kind Postmaster promised to follow up and call me on Monday.
Lo and behold it moved soon after; I think the Postmaster called. The package then slowly progressed to its destination where it awaited delivery scan and signature from the recipient, CvB. She picked it up and I was so relieved. One week from NY to CA. BUT…the tracking still shows she hasn’t retrieved the package.
Very disappointing…I am not sure I have the stomach for this shipping anymore

 

[yssie]

This is infuriating. I’m so sorry @yssie
I wanted to add my experience. Even though I was aware of your terrible shipping problem, I was convinced by the USPS clerk to use Registered to ship my high-value jewelry package. It was supposed to be delivered two days later. Lol
Firstly, on day two it got stuck in Queens, NY for over 26 hours. I shipped it Wednesday and it’s still in my state two days later?!?
I visited my local PO on a Saturday and the kind Postmaster promised to follow up and call me on Monday.
Lo and behold it moved soon after; I think the Postmaster called. The package then slowly progressed to its destination where it awaited delivery scan and signature from the recipient, CvB. She picked it up and I was so relieved. One week from NY to CA. BUT…the tracking still shows she hasn’t retrieved the package.
Very disappointing…I am not sure I have the stomach for this shipping anymore

Someone else could have received delivery for it and you’d have no idea. If you and Caysie weren’t in communication.

Same as with my package.

That’s scary.

 

[Slickk]

Someone else could have received delivery for it and you’d have no idea. If you and Caysie weren’t in communication.

Same as with my package.

That’s scary.

Exactly!! It’s such a sham that it’s the ‘safest for valuables.’ I think not. Also, I should have paid double and just overnighted it. It’s just not worth the days of stressing over it.
Also, saw a popular account on IG say that wrapping jewelry in tin foil might fool the scanners. Tin-hat club here I come!!