A Warning For Fellow Stackers
- Thread starter Rick4691
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Sending valuable items
Safeguard your valuable deliveries
If you're sending a valuable item by mail, you might like to take out Extra Cover, and also check local regulations if you're sending it overseas.
Some countries won't accept any valuable items into their mail system. Other countries might accept them if they're insured, and some countries accept valuable items in certain services but not others.
Check our International Post Guide to find out details for each country.
What is a 'valuable item'?
All postal organisations consider the following to be valuable:
Coins
Travellers cheques
Securities of any kind payable to bearer
Platinum, gold or silver, manufactured or otherwise
Jewels
Other articles of high intrinsic value
Precious stones (all valuable natural mineral stone, silica or substances extracted from the group, whether in its natural state or refined, processed, set or treated)
Coins, bank notes and bullion
In addition to this list, we won't deliver bullion, bank notes or coins in any international services. This includes all Australian notes and coins, the bank notes or currency notes and coins of any other country and coins made from precious metals, whether or not such coins have a denomination..
This prohibition applies even if the destination country does accept valuables at their end.
Send parcels on the go, pay for postage, order a pick-up all from your mobile with Australia Post Parcel Send App.
Safeguard your valuable deliveries
If you're sending a valuable item by mail, you might like to take out Extra Cover, and also check local regulations if you're sending it overseas.
Some countries won't accept any valuable items into their mail system. Other countries might accept them if they're insured, and some countries accept valuable items in certain services but not others.
Check our International Post Guide to find out details for each country.
What is a 'valuable item'?
All postal organisations consider the following to be valuable:
Coins
Travellers cheques
Securities of any kind payable to bearer
Platinum, gold or silver, manufactured or otherwise
Jewels
Other articles of high intrinsic value
Precious stones (all valuable natural mineral stone, silica or substances extracted from the group, whether in its natural state or refined, processed, set or treated)
Coins, bank notes and bullion
In addition to this list, we won't deliver bullion, bank notes or coins in any international services. This includes all Australian notes and coins, the bank notes or currency notes and coins of any other country and coins made from precious metals, whether or not such coins have a denomination..
This prohibition applies even if the destination country does accept valuables at their end.
Send parcels on the go, pay for postage, order a pick-up all from your mobile with Australia Post Parcel Send App.
Pirocco
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An email can have its sender field edited by the sender, so one can put anything there, but in the source of the email there is a Received: from <address> ([<ip number>]) and that can make clear whether or not the claimed sender is the real one.lara4691 said:
In my region it's since 2012 a plague of emails pretending to come from various banks and even shops in your own neighborhood, probably because they use Google Map and whatever there is avail, to tie a certain email address to a geographical location. After the email they even call people. Banks took measures (for ex my internetbanking now requires 2 codes entering stages (a timewasting annoying pain in the <beep>), in order to make it 'less easy'.
It became my habit to check any email that involves money transfers for a possible bogus sender field. Even if I expect one (for ex after an auction site bid). Because people can have spybots on their computer, that relay their emails to some third party, which then can use the info to send a pretender email containing their own payment details.
It's also abit solliciting for this kind of problems, when you work and there is never somebody home to accept post. A postbox is not that cheap, and requires picking it up at a postoffice, but there isn't much alternative in this situation, or it would be someone you know/trust that is home and is willing to do this, so that you can use that as delivery address.
lara4691 said:
I'll save you trouble ... as I posted here a couple of weeks ago:
It is against the terms and conditions of Australia Post to send money (notes or coins) unless it's less than $200 face value, and sent registered post.
Source: http://auspost.com.au/media/documents/AP-TCs.pdf
Don't forget Lara4691, despite the warnings, you went and posted pics of what you have on that other thread.
So now, someone has your home address and an idea of the other stuff you have there.... even if they're out of town...all it takes is a phone call to a local mate.
you really should read the threads on this forum.
So now, someone has your home address and an idea of the other stuff you have there.... even if they're out of town...all it takes is a phone call to a local mate.
you really should read the threads on this forum.
Pretty sure the $100 insurance that once was given with registered post was taken off a while back. I "believe" that only Platinum Post still has the automatic $100 insurance and even then it would be a bit of an uphill battle to have them pay out for bullion. Could be wrong though!!!!
Its awlful when you have bad service or worse!
We get everything signed for sent to us, the lattest problem was when the posty took it several streets away and had the item signed for at the wrong address.!!!
They just said item delivered now its your problem even
Though the signature was a very differnt name.
In the end we found out that items that are signed for have a PDA system, I imagine that might be like a GPRS
Or GPS system. But even with this information the post office just were not interested.
When we told the seller I suspect they thought we were trying to pull a fast one!? As the item was signed for and delivered ( just not to the correct address )
A week later I located our item after doing some detective work and door knocking. Happy ending but slightly frustrating
We get everything signed for sent to us, the lattest problem was when the posty took it several streets away and had the item signed for at the wrong address.!!!
They just said item delivered now its your problem even
Though the signature was a very differnt name.
In the end we found out that items that are signed for have a PDA system, I imagine that might be like a GPRS
Or GPS system. But even with this information the post office just were not interested.
When we told the seller I suspect they thought we were trying to pull a fast one!? As the item was signed for and delivered ( just not to the correct address )
A week later I located our item after doing some detective work and door knocking. Happy ending but slightly frustrating