I have bought many hundreds of coins and have received them through the mail.
The packaging goes from Superb to downright bloody awful.
My biggest hate is when they arrive sticky taped to cardboard :dash1:
What is your horror story regarding receiving coins in the mail and how do you prefer to send coins?
I used to simply put them in 2x2's and fold them up in printer paper.
I now put the 2x2's inside a 2.5x2.5 saflips and heat seal it.
Slabs go into zip lock bags or if in bulk in the blue PCGS box.
Our best one is coin received packaged in used foil custard tart cases taped together, complete with pastry crumbs.
Quote from: 'purplepennyhunter' pid='42884' dateline='1393568695'Our best one is coin received packaged in used foil custard tart cases taped together, complete with pastry crumbs.
YUCK
This is Marks' choice unc Irish half crown, arrived circulated, not the same coin as in image, taped to the inside of the envelope, and Paypal wouldn't give him his money back. An all round winner!
(http://www.timeclockmts.com/coins/taped.jpg)
:fie: Perhaps unc means something different in Ireland.
Quote from: 'trout' pid='42879' dateline='1393567489'My biggest hate is when they arrive sticky taped to cardboard :dash1:
Hey! You been peeking in my mailbox? I got one of those just the other day. :(
While I don't buy stuff on ebay, I've had a fair few packages from you lot. And they range from one or two good ones to absolute horrors. So here's a couple of tips...
1. You are not packing fragile vials filled with deadly radioactive toxins. There is NO need to sticky tape every edge, and also staple them.
2. There is also no need to glue, tape, or otherwise restrain the coins. They are neither small children, nor Hannibal Lecter. They don't bite.
3. DO use Ziplock bags. Every bank in the country will happily give you big piles of nice new coin bags for the asking. Use them. If you MUST tape things down, tape the bag, not the coin or the 2x2.
4. Fold the last few mm of tape strips over, to form an easy-to-grab handle.
5. Turn the little spring-loaded plate in your stapler around, so the staple ends point out, not in. This is designed to make staples easy to remove without oxy-acetylene torches or spilled blood.
6. Do NOT tape over stamps, or overlap them. Many people collect stamps, or know someone who does, so don't destroy them, especially if they're not boring run-of-the-mill issues.
7. You are not building a set of russian dolls, nor Pandora's box. Keep it simple. One or two layers is perfectly adequate. There is no need for layer upon layer upon layer of cardboard, newsprint, wrapping paper, old socks and kitchen sinks, all wrapped up tighter than an Egyptian mummy.
There's lots more, but you kinda get my drift by now, right? :diablo:
Hey McDuck! ..... What's this you using the term Pandora's box in a post a 10:14 while I use it in another at 10:14 ...... geez.
btw: lovely posting tips!
Quote from: 'Unicorn' pid='42913' dateline='1393582796'Hey McDuck! ..... What's this you using the term Pandora's box in a post a 10:14 while I use it in another at 10:14 ...... geez.
I just saw that!
Great minds think alike!
Or was it Fools seldom differ?
*shrug*
Decent people know how to send coins,amatures don't
Trout
Having your coins sticky taped is better than having a bunch of coins placed loosely in an envelope to rub together or make an escape hatch. I've received both those horror methods.
Better is coins wrapped individually in tissue (lower grade bullion coins) or put inside either a saflip or 2X2 (nicer coins) and then stuck between cardboard or in bubble wrap.
For the really nice coins there are coin mailers (kraft cardboard) that will securely hold slabs, flips and 2X2s. Then bubble wrap for extra protection.
Fulvio, I like it when the sender takes the time to tape the edges of the envelopes. Makes it that much stronger. But I don't like it when they tape over the stamps as I keep them.
Quote from: 'runway' pid='42937' dateline='1393596158'Decent people know how to send coins,amatures don't
I bought some UNC New Zealand notes and some slabs from a major Australian dealer auction a few years back. And when they arrived they we all in a box together with no other packaging and the notes were just loose banging around with the slabs. So anyone is capable of pathetic packaging if they put their mind to it.
QuoteSo here's a couple of tips...
I resemble those remarks.
I tend to overpack but, I guess that is better than underpacking.
One thing I do suggest; if sending coins as a letter (60ยข for up to 10 or 12 coins is good value) then tape across the corners of the envelope. Australia post handling machinery is prone to ripping the corners off envelopes with a concentrated weight in the middle -high risk of shedding coins. I have had that happen.
My wife purchased a large lot of depression glass items once. Arrived in a box with each piece loosely wrapped in a single sheet of newspaper and plenty of room for them to move around. Astoundingly, two pieces were not smashed!
Quote from: 'trout' pid='42879' dateline='1393567489'My biggest hate is when they arrive sticky taped to cardboard
I have done many world trades and this seems to be a common method,
indeed I use it myself, but the coins are usually wrapped in tissue paper
first. The number one aim is to stop the coins from rattling and alerting
the postie to the contents.
In fact I have such a package on my desk right now, though I have
peeled the packets off the cardboard.
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10113/001_28500x40229.jpg)
I use tissue paper wrapped around the coins, then placed in to the small plastic coin bags that one gets form the bank and then between two pieces of cardboard which are norm ally old cereal boxes. Then all is sent in padded bags.
To date, no complaints at all.
I received these coins from Enwarb a while back.
IMHO About the best and safest way to send coins in the mail.
I was that impressed I bought a heat sealer and have been using Matty's concept ever since.
NO rattling, NO chance of each coin damaging another in the postal system and the presentation is nothing short of outstanding and is highly professional. :good:
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10019/matty1.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10019/matty.jpg)
(http://www.australian-coins.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10019/matty2.jpg)
Quote from: 'Goldseeker' pid='42949' dateline='1393631024'I use tissue paper wrapped around the coins, then placed in to the small plastic coin bags that one gets form the bank and then between two pieces of cardboard which are norm ally old cereal boxes. Then all is sent in padded bags.
This is a good way, as is Trout's.
I would use the bank bags, and a heat sealer, to produce a mix of the two methods. Come to think of it, I think I might have done that already... ;)
Some years ago I purchased a 1959M Penny CHU Red from a leading Melbourne auction house. After a few months, to my sorrow, there started to appear a whopping great thumb print. There was obviously some slack coin care going on, either by the vendor or the auction people. My point being, at the end of the day it doesn't matter how the items are packaged if the clowns at the other end have their heads up the proverbial.
Quote from: 'autocoupler' pid='43105' dateline='1393934999'...the clowns at the other end have their heads up the proverbial.
And when you complain they whip out the Brasso and a buffing wheel... good as new! :diablo:
Many big ANDA dealers don't handle coins properly.
PCGS included.
They don't care.
I'd suggest that many high PCGS graded coppers especially proofs will develop spotting etc.
Main reason why I don't collect them any more...
I agree nealeffendi, I would rather spend half a day unwrapping a coin that has been securely sealed than open an envelope (or custard tart tin) than have a coin fall out of an envelope.