Where can I go to calculate registered mail with signature confirmation.

[mozartbach1971]

A buyer from San Francisco is asking me to send a 4 pound package by registered mail with signature confirmation. I can't find a site where I can calculate the price.  Does anyone know where I can find out the price?

[12345jamesstamps]

That's what I thought. "Overkill" with all the hassles. 

[stephenmorgan]

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@12345jamesstamps wrote:

Since I usually wait in line at the post office for a clerk almost daily for years...I have never seen it. 

How would I see it? Waiting in line you can see the forms people use for mailing items. And I live in a city of around one million people.

Are you saying you can do registered mail online with no forms then?

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No, you have purchase the Register Mail feature in person.  You can check the price online but you can not purchase the service online.  It is not Registered until an authorized USPS Agent seals it and accepts it.

[mozartbach1971]

You package should look something like this for Register Mail.

I like to over wrap boxes to make them very secure. Would it be OK if I put the tape all over the box except in the areas were the addresses are?

[stephenmorgan]

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@12345jamesstamps wrote:

That's what I thought. "Overkill" with all the hassles. 

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Depends on what the item is. 

If the item is the only one available at this time I may choose to have it delivered by Register Mail only to myself because I do not want to take a chance of it getting lost.  Maybe I do not want someone else to receive the item on my behalf because I donot want them to know about it.

[stephenmorgan]

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@mozartbach1971 wrote:

You package should look something like this for Register Mail.

I like to over wrap boxes to make them very secure. Would it be OK if I put the tape all over the box except in the areas were the addresses are?

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You mean something like this one.  I have see it done before but I do no know if the USPS considers it ok or not.  

[buyselljack2016]

It's fine. Just more stamping as every seam/edge of tape where it overlaps has to be stamped 😂

[1tuna]

you can use clear tape for the box and then cover it with the paper tape, it goes right over the clear tape

I have used registered mail for years but only once in the USA

normally I use it for the UK to my buddy for his watches.

the insurance for registered mail is much cheaper,once you get to a certain point say $1500 then it automatically becomes cheaper than priority mail

everyone is forgetting all about the black and red registered label,this is only available at the PO

all of this is just overkill for a simple package

signature delivery is also free with registered mail so I would never add it

I have always been able to track registered mail overseas

@mozartbach1971 

[mozartbach1971]

Now the buyer said he meant to say he wanted priority mail with signature confirmation.  I think maybe the price I quoted him for registered mail made him change his mind?

[nobody*s_perfect]

Probably made him realize that "Registered" wasn't what he wanted in the first place.