I suppose with newer modern day chips there could be less of a risk. I would think though with older antique chips, due to their additional value and the fact that they could get more delicate and brittle with age, it might be a risk that, well, At least, I wouldn't want to take.

I made the point in my previous letter because I have seen a few posts, over the last few years, here on The Chipboard, where people have posted the pictures of chips that they received where they came out of the envelopes cracked in several pieces. I even got a few NYNY, or was it Excalibur, $1 chips where, even in a padded envelope, the chips arrived with a few chips on the edges. I don't know if all the other examples I have seen involved standard envelopes though. I seem to recall at least one that did.