Logistics
Ship It
Item value and weight in, shipping method out. Tuned for coins and bullion — when to risk the cheap envelope, when tracking is non-negotiable, and when only Registered Mail will do.
🏴☠️ Buy the label on PirateShip →
Free to use, no markup — commercial USPS & UPS rates well below the post office counter. Quote there, then update the rate table below to match.
Your Rate Tableeditable — set these from your PirateShip quotes
Coin Shipping Rules of Thumb
- PirateShip is your default label source. It's free software with commercial pricing baked in — Ground Advantage and Priority run meaningfully cheaper than USPS retail, and UPS rates are discounted too. Quote both carriers side-by-side before buying.
- PirateShip insurance (InsureShield) is usually cheaper than USPS counter insurance and — unlike USPS — it covers coins and bullion. Check the per-$100 rate when shipping anything over the included $100, and update the "extra insurance" row above to match.
- One exception: eBay Standard Envelope only exists inside eBay's label flow — PirateShip can't sell it. Everything else, go pirate.
- eBay Standard Envelope only for items that fit the thickness limit — single coins in flips taped to cardboard, never in a 2×2 snap case (too thick). Delivery confirmation is scan-based, not full tracking, and claims are capped low. Never for anything you'd be upset to lose.
- Tape the coin down. A loose coin in an envelope is a coin the sorting machine ate.
- Ground Advantage is the default once value passes the envelope cap — the included $100 insurance covers most stream sales.
- Insurance through eBay/Whatnot labels is often cheaper than USPS retail counter rates.
- Registered Mail for anything four figures — it travels in locked containers with signatures at every handoff. Slow but the gold standard, literally.
- Never write "coins" on the package. Boring packages don't grow legs.