Originally Posted by
himespau
So does everyone else insure everything or just take the occasional loss as the cost of selling things on the interwebz? I thought I was being sage by getting tracking. Guess not.
Nope. I always ship UPS with insurance (free up to $100) and any UPS shipment comes with tracking. The only time I ship USPS anymore is on very low cost, small items (like hardware pieces). Earlier in the week another thread was started on these issues:
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...Received-Item.
The problem with non-tracked USPS services (even if you have something like Delivery Confirmation) is lack of accountability and "paper-trail." If something goes wrong on your UPS, Fedex, DHL, shipment you can easily identify where things went wrong and the responsible office. Specifically, with UPS you get a "Delivery Exception" notice if indeed your package was misrouted.
Saving the occasional few bucks with USPS is just not worth the headaches.