Some clarification from someone who used to work for the Post Office:
While regular postal workers are not supposed to open mail, official
"postal inspectors" can and do open and inspect mail on a random basis all the
time.
As for insured packages -- yes, the carrier who delivers it is *supposed*
to hand it to a person at the delivery address and get a signature. The reality
is often very different. Here at my house we get insured packages all the time.
Most of the time they are just left on the front porch, with no signature ever
having been acquired. Other people tell me similar stories.
Still, you do get what you pay for -- and with media mail you are paying
for absolutely nothing. At one time, long ago, media mail was a decent service.
But that has all changed since 9/11. After several lost and mangled packages a
few years back, I started refusing to ship medial mail any longer. If I buy from
a seller who wants to ship media mail, I always insist they upgrade me to
Priority Mail and pay the few extra bucks it costs to do so. Media Mail is a
sucker bet. No one should ship anything of value using Media Mail.
The difference in cost between Media Mail and Priority Mail is never much
more than a couple of dollars, anyway. And the service of Priority Mail is so
far beyond Medial Mail that it's hard to even measure. It's just not worth
the few bucks you save to use Media Mail and take the risk.
-- JR
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