How To Ship And Insure Valuable Items

[quadricorrelator]

I was told that Fedex will insure shipments to the US of up to $500.00. Is there anyway to ship packages to the US which are valued at more than that?

[astral]

Hand carry valuable items.

[quadricorrelator]

Hand carry valuable items.

What if a person wanted to ship a gift and wasn't going back?

[expatwannabe]

I've been shipping miscellaneous small and larger gifts to and from Thailand for years. The only thing is that U.S. Customs seems to like opening my stuff mailed from Thailand. So I always seem to get it with green Customs tape over the parts they re-sealed.

Thailand isn't Mexico - where you can go down to the docks to find your stolen mail and pay a fee to claim it. They're more honest here. But if you're sending something really expensive - like over US$1,000 - I recommend you take it yourself. Barring that, send it registered mail at a Thai post office. Unless the carriers see money bulging out of the box, you should be ok.