Hey Katie & Greg,

I always use padded envelops or a box with a lot of bubble wrap not to mention each chip in it's own protected area. I've received a couple of packages where the chips were just thrown in an envelope. Yet sometime during the "handling" of these 'letters' the chips would land on top of each other. Then either during the canceling process or during other times (boxes dropped or thrown on top of, etc...), the chip(s) would 'chip' each other or in one case the chip actually broke in half! ARGH!!!

I too have walked chip packages in to the PO, and most of the times they are metered, yet a few times, the clerk will put a stamp on it!?!

One last postal story... Steve Piccolo will remember this one...
Steve and I have been trading every since the ol' Prodigy day's. One trade that we had, Steve sent a package that took 6 months to arrive on this end!?!
The funny thing about it was we had done several other trades, and they took less than a week for the packages to get from either here to there or Vice Versa...

Humm...

Dick