How to safely ship cards...

[YankeeBob63]

Here are some great tips for shipping cards via the U.S. Mail:

http://www.seanet.com/~brucemo/card_...s/shipping.htm

Bob

[stkmtimo]

Thank you for that useful link!

Tim

[gioperation]

Yeah that was pretty cool when I ship to japan I usually just make it a envelope first class and have had no problems, I do the same for canada and again have had no problem with that at all.

if you are using paypal I would suggest that you require that your buyers pay for delivery confirmation, to stop those 1 or 2% of buyers that will say that they never recieved the card to protect you against fraud as paypal will not stand behind the folks that pay them(the sellers) paypal will debit your account within 7 days or the complaint as some fraud buyers know this to be the case, you will be screwed and pissed off and there is nothing you can do about it, there are a few things in america where you have a no win sutuation and this is one, people have talked about having different account and transferring money to diff accounts but they will just get the the next pennies that comes into your account.

just my 2 cents

[podstock]

Bob-

Thanks very much for that very useful link. Excellent!! It should be featured in an article in USA Today or any major newspapers. Would be helpful for anyone who buys/sells/trades.

As for me personally, I ship mine enclosed in cardboard. Yes, the post office charges me $0.12 extra, but it's worth it.

With a top loader, it's bendable very easily.

With cardboard, someone seriously has to try to bend the envelope before the cards become creased.

[pwaldo]

I always ship in a bubble mailer and I have never had any problems with cards getting lost or damaged.