How to Ship Trading Cards (Pokemon, Baseball)
Shipping Pokemon cards to a buyer, to PSA or Baseball cards can be quite tricky, as a valuable card retains their value by either the condition of the card, or if a booster pack that is sealed and must remain sealed. It’s also essential to choose the right carrier and determine whether shipping insurance is necessary. In this blog post, we’ll give the best advices to ship pokemon cards safely, ensuring they arrive intact at destination, and in case something happen how to be fully covered.
How to pack Pokemon or Baseball cards for shipping
By applying our step by step guide, you ensure your trading or sports cards will arrive safely and be fully insured in the event of theft, loss or damage.
Here is what you need to do :
- Find a little cardboard box where you can put your cards inside.
- Make sure the cards are well maintained and that movement is restricted inside.
- Place this small cardboard box into a bigger cardboard box, also ensuring both boxes are well sealed.
- Place 2 shipping labels, one on the smaller cardboard box, and the main one on the bigger box.
These steps will ensure your cards are well packed, but that’s only the first step!
Which carrier and Insurance to ship your sports cards?
It is important to select the best carriers to ship your valuable cards, either they were sold en eBay, sent to PSA for grading or directly to a buyer. We recommend using only FedEx, DHL Express or UPS, always choosing a signature delivery as mandatory. Always double check the recipient address, to make sure there is no error. You must avoid shipping your cards to unsafe location, such as pick-up points (supermarket, grocery stores etc.). Always ship directly to a business or residential address and never allow the carrier to deliver the package somewhere else.
How to insure your cards against loss, theft and damage?
Secursus.com offers a comprehensive coverage for trading cards, up to $120,000 per package. The coverage includes loss, theft and damage of the cards while being shipped. To insure your sports cards, you just have to sign-up on Secursus and fill out the insurance form. Remember that you always have to insure a cards that have a real market value. Cards can be insured if you have a recent proof of value, such as an invoice. Without any proof of value for your cards, insurance would not be effective, and we recommend not insuring them in that case.
Should you take our the carrier’s insurance?
Carriers insurance often don’t cover second hand goods such as sports trading card. We always recommend to double check the carrier’s insurance conditions in order to understand the coverage completetly. If you’re sending your card to a grading company, or sold it online, the insurance may not work in certain cases.
One interesting stories about sending a valuable sport cards
A collector named Mark, once shipped a 1st edition Charizard to PSA for grading. He found the card in its old cards folder he had when we was 12 years old. To ship the card, he choose FedEx with adult signature required. He packed the card well, and the funny story is that the package was very large it could fit a bike. But as he wanted the card to be well protected, he thaught it was a good idea. Little did he know, the package was opened by the carrier as the packaging was extremelely light compared to its size. The carrier, when opening the package, did not found anything inside, so the whole package got discarded as the card was lost. Mark did not have any insurance, so unfortunately he lost everything.
