USPS Tracking is a joke... Just saying...
Terry
your statement is weaksauce clownshoes...not everyone needs to know when the UPS guy farts or wipes his nose.
Tracking is important to me and speed is less so. When they get there, they get there. Insurance? I am not even sure what kind of value to put on over 1,000 analog cassettes.
Thanks for the thoughts so far. Keep them coming.
belexes, if those cases are the ZIPPER ones, I'd be up for buying a few of those from you, so I can have all my masters in them ('92 thru '99 are covered, '00 thru '08 are not, though I did a lot less taping between '01 and '08). they quit making the case logic zipper ones around '03, I believe. (though mine are only 30 to a side)
go media mail in a couple/three of large cartons (esp if there's tracking), should cost you between $150-200....then again, I believe media does go by weight (usually used for books, though tapes fall under 'media', as do cds/dvds)
***then again***, 10 of the cube Priority boxes is 970 tapes at around $180, and there's guaranteed tracking/should arrive within a week.