Does Registered Mail Get Lost

While it is true that registered post is handled very advisedly, with postal employees signing for the packet at manus-off and being locked-down at other times, the tracking system doesn't display transit data. Some say it is intentional, for security.
Tracking software volition bear witness only that the package was accustomed and non be updated until it is delivered.

It is non uncommon for registered postal service to have a couple of weeks for delivery. I waited 3 weeks in one case for the coin to cross the country. I hope yours shows up soon.
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I dont think registered is automatically insured for 25k, y'all accept to pay for the insurance but it is cheaper than insurance on priority packages.
Given that you were sending the coins in to be graded by a TPG, I believe USPS is indemnified from paying off an insurance claim above what yous paid. As another fellow member stated, USPS Registered Mail is signed for at EVERY mitt-off. Per USPS.com:
Notation: Due to extraordinary security precautions, the commitment length for Registered Mail service may be 10-14 days. Registered Mail service is non recommended if speed of delivery is important.

Past definition, any packet sent Registered Postal service would exist FCM or Priority course. The annotation above is to make information technology clear to the shipper that the package will be SLOWER than normal Priority Mail service. If your package was sent on 29 Apr, every bit Conder said, the post office wouldn't open up an investigation until 30 May, at the earliest. Heck, 20 May would still exist within the window of reasonable delivery time given the class of mail and Registered status.

That said, USPS has been slow this year. I had a package that was being sent to me Priority Mail from New York. It took 10 days for the package to leave the country. In all, thirteen postal days of shipping fourth dimension (ii.5 weeks) for a package shipped "Priority."
I insured information technology for $3994.00. Odd amount I know but I had to redo values for my merits and the value was closer to $4500. I know it is non that much but some of the coins I plant in the 1990'southward. I went to a different postal service office and the Postmaster at first thought it was his co-operative that it was missing from and was having a fit. He said that type of mail only does non go missing. I volition see what ahppens and let anybody know. thank you Darrow
Funny...I just had consummated a trade bargain with some other forum member (after another member, who shall remain nameless, committed to a deal for these coins, but only walked away from it). My package made it (priority mail, with del confirm) in it's anticipated time. The package sent by the other member had del ostend on it. He dropped information technology off at a physical P.O., not but dropped it in a postal service box. It NEVER got scanned at the P.O. he dropped it off at (BIG trouble at that place....he paid for del confirm, and it was basically ignored).
I can bank check the USPS website and rails the del confirm #, and to this very minute, it shows the Simply place this package got scanned at was when it hit the regional sorting facility (Boston surface area), on information technology's way to my city's sort facility. For at least ten days we figured it got lost.....and 'lost' was confirmed past the regional Postal function (the one you phone call with bug, where the people take brains, not the local Mail service Function, where an untrained chimp could get hired). Unbeknownst to me, it got delivered to the firm, wound upward in a pile of mail a jacket got put on top of. It was shipped on the 7th. When it was delivered, we'll have NO thought. I figure betwixt the 24-hour interval information technology got dropped off at his local P.O. (where it SHOULD have been scanned IN as 'received'), to the time it got delivered to my house, a minimum of half-dozen postal employees handled it...perhaps more than.....and just ONE bothered to scan it.

This was the SECOND parcel in that same calendar week that got lost on me (2nd one was a cell phone bombardment...got sorted to another carrier's road....thankfully, the person who received information technology was honest plenty to bring it to my house). The service the USPS gives is DEPLORABLE. I have admittedly NO religion in them. The worst part is, I accept perhaps twenty coins all packaged, some high grade varieties worth more than but a few bucks, that WERE going to go to PCGS....now I don't know what to do, brusk of UPS, FedEx, or even delivering past hand....iii,200 miles abroad.

This is on the heels (in November) of a $600 HK medal that had sig confirm on information technology....only to exist signed for past a postal employee at 9PM, marked as 'delivered'.....at 9PM!!! How many letter carriers are still delivering mail at ix:00 at dark? NONE! Needless to say, that employee is no longer with them (theft or not, we'll never know). Yes, it was insured, and the claim was paid (took three months)...BUT, only the cost of the medal...they even so go along the $$ they charge for postage, so I really lost $$ on it.

I have absolutely NO faith in the P.O. whatsoever, absolutely NONE....their heads are stuck and then far up 'there', they can't see the lite of day. And the worst part is, it really isn't brain surgery. Fortunately, things accept worked out just OK, no cheers to the USPS. I promise the OP has better luck than I've had lately.
No it isn't. You accept to declare a value for the packet and you pay the Registered mail fee and insurance up to the value y'all declared. As blu62vette said these insurance rates are MUCH lower than the rates for regular insured post. The $25K effigy is the MAXIMUM y'all tin can insure it for, simply you tin can declare values higher than that corporeality. If y'all declare over the $25K figure you will pay an addition dollar per $1K of value or any portion thereof. For example If yous declare $35K you lot would pay the fee for $25K plus $10. If it gets lost though they volition Not pay more than $25K even though y'all declared the higher corporeality and paid the fee. (They take similar rules for regular insured, but there the MAXIMUM amout you can insure or go paid for is $5K.)
Darrowcrowe, what did you pay for the insurance? Priority insured for $4K would have been nigh $48.85 Express mail insured for $4K would take been about $71.25 Registered for $4K would have been nigh $23.85 The amount you paid would tell us how it was shipped.

I assumed a small-scale apartment priority box, and a flat rate express postal service envelope.
Registered mail is automatically insured, that's why you take to pay more to ship an item the more than expensive it is. up to $25k
http://world wide web.usps.com/send/waystosendmail/extraservices/registeredmailservice.htm

Items you send with Registered Mail are placed under tight security from the point of mailing to the point of delivery, and insured up to $25,000 against loss or harm. And you can verify the date and time of delivery and the delivery attempts online.

besides

Registered for $4K would have been almost $18.85 on top of regular postage
It is automatically insured only if you lot pay for it. Run into http://world wide web.usps.com/prices/registered-postal service-prices.htm. i.e. 0 value = $10.75; ane,000.01 to $25,000 = $14.65 plus $ane.40 handling charge for each $1,000 or fraction thereof over $ane,000.00
Yep but you are required to pay for it.... and it is on peak of regular shipping. I approximate if you lot prevarication to them and tell them your particular is worth $0 then yeah... you screwed yourself, merely I don't lie so accept always told them exactly what the item/items were worth and was charged appropriately.
I guess my point existence, you don't need to, and can't buy boosted insurance on superlative of the full when you post something registered postal service. Information technology is also cheaper to postal service registered mail every bit opposed to priority with insurance after a sure dollar amount.
I don't see it on the site at present but they used to accept a note on there that you could only declare a nada value for things such every bit documents. Any trade had to have a declared non-cypher value. The break point at which registered starts becoming cheaper is somewhere between $800 and $1K.
Constitute the reference to what can be sent with a zero value Domestic Mail Manual Sec 502 2.iii.1 Fees and Liabilities

"Only articles of no value may be mailed as Registered Postal service without insurance."

then in the table that follows shows these as no value items

Nonnegotiable Instrument [registered bonds, warehouse receipts, checks, drafts, deeds, wills, abstracts, and similar documents (certificates of stock considered nonnegotiable then far as declaration of value is concerned unless endorsed in blank)]

Nonvaluable (matter without intrinsic value such as messages, files, records)
What I am trying to tell you is that registered post is no more than insured than kickoff class postal service. If you post a package registered for $10.75 and it is lost, you will recover a total of naught, nil, nada. If yous mail a pound of gold and just pay $fourteen.65 and they lose that also, yous volition merely recover $i,000. Flow. Y'all do demand to buy the insurance if yous wait to recover anything.
When sending something registered mail, exercise not lie about it's value.