Dave, another case of different post offices doing different things: I send a few chips in the mail by sandwiching them between thick cardboard, putting it in a rgular #10 business-type envelope (9.5" x 4"), and sending it on its way, INSURED. Whether right or wrong, in Brooklyn I have been doing it successfully for years, 99.99% of the time no questions asked. The 0.01% of the time a clerk objects, I send him to the supervisor, and it gets sent insured. ... ... .... IN MANHATTAN (same post office on 8th Avenue), most of the time they refuse to send it INSURED. They say "you can't insure a LETTER." I agree and say what I am insuring is a tick package of merchandise sent in a regular envelope, to no avail. They have yet to show me a regulation.

Robert