Fearing the worst....
After seeing Dennis Shoop's post about the mail he has received recently, I decide to pull out one of my plastic chip tubes and felt like spacers, taped that shut then used a padded envelope. Cost me 1.89 to ship it, and due to the size of the tube I am not worries about the cancelation machine. Now this probably is not practical for one chip, but I mailed a quantity so it works.