Which shipping service allows coins on international mail?

I looked at every single shipping service a person can think of. DHL, FedEx, UPS, and so on. 
 

Every single one of them states that transportation of coins is prohibited. How do people make swaps through the mail? And which shipping service do you guys suggest?
 

Thanks for reading :)

By not declaring them as coins/banknotes. 

The prohibition of sending money is not really aimed at common numismatic money but as an anti-terrorist and anti money laundering measurement (maybe also against smuggling of cultural relevant items). Also the carriers want you to use their overpriced services that allows the sending if money.

But isn’t it illegal not declaring them as coins even though they are? 
 

I just want to make my first swap through mail and I worry that I may be flagged with ”terrorism” or “money laundering”

It was always prohibited to send cash money in ordinary (postal) mail. Originally it was to prevent theft, and when it's prohibited you can't complain that your letter containing cash never arrived. Furthermore, ordinary mail normally doesn't warrant compensation when lost (or stolen or whatever).

The postal services used to offer insured letters (value or money letters - valeur declarée) where you could send cash money, but perhaps not to all destinations. In many countries this service is no longer available and in some countries this service is only available for domestic destinations.

The money laundering aspect to cash in the mail was introduced after the 9/11 attack and the War on Terror in 2003.

While sending cash in the mail is illegal as previously mentioned, sending collectors coins and notes isn’t.  Non declarations of large amounts is illegal, and such trying to sneak it to someone in the post is illegal just like trying to walk it through an Airport strapped to your leg!
 

Some countries have clamped down on sending coins in the normal post i.e. letters, even recorded and tracked ones, however it isn’t to do with money laundering or illegal activities rather that because most letters are now machine sorted and coins burst themselves out of the envelope (due to the machine sorting process) and they get stuck in the machine. These machines cost 100s of thousands of € and postal services are fed up with it! It’s not just coins, screws, nuts, badges etc, idiots put all sorts in flimsy envelopes, stick the cheapest stamp on and think it is adequate or that a human will handle it for the whole journey!

So Deutsch Post who own DHL said it was not possible to send goods in the normal post anymore, this is partly to do with not paying out for recorded delivery (that are now only allowed to carry documents) but also so that people would have to pay more for goods post or use DHL.

However if you pack your coins well, with cardboard etc, so they cannot get out and the envelope is firm enough to move through the machines no one is going to care. Make sure you send recorded so that if it’s lost you can claim money back in Egypt, don’t put more than the max claim for recorded mail plus what it costs you postage and packing in your swap and you will be okay.

Happy swapping

Thanks for the detailed reply :) @King 
 

Can you please suggest me a shipping service that isn’t so crazy expensive like DHL?

the_egyptian

Thanks for the detailed reply :) @King 
 

Can you please suggest me a shipping service that isn’t so crazy expensive like DHL?

From Egypt i wouldn’t know, DHL is one of the cheapest within Germany and Europe as a whole, with from my experience UPS being the most professional at handling and delivery of the parcel - but they are more expensive than DHL in Europe.

Like i said though, if you send through Egyptian Postal service normal letter, coins well packed within card and registered &tracked, find out how much the compensation is they will pay out if it is lost. So example 100 egyptian pounds pay out, cost 15 Egyptian pounds postage, then 2 for envelope and then don’t send more than 83 egyptian pounds worth of coins at a time. Declare collectible items if coins are prohibited, most countries don’t apply custom tax to coins, but be prepared for customs to open the packaging if the scan shows anything suspicious.

National postal services are required to cap prices because it is a service, then international postage prices are set depending on a countries economic status, thus from poorer countries it is cheaper to send mail abroad but to send something to the poorer country from a richer country it is more expensive. Countries statuses change every 10/20 years or so depending on their economic development or decline. So the cheapest way to send anything is via the national postal service. I have had a few swaps from Egypt all arrived recorded, tracked and with no problems.

King

While sending cash in the mail is illegal as previously mentioned, sending collectors coins and notes isn’t.  Non declarations of large amounts is illegal, and such trying to sneak it to someone in the post is illegal just like trying to walk it through an Airport strapped to your leg!
 

Some countries have clamped down on sending coins in the normal post i.e. letters, even recorded and tracked ones, however it isn’t to do with money laundering or illegal activities rather that because most letters are now machine sorted and coins burst themselves out of the envelope (due to the machine sorting process) and they get stuck in the machine. These machines cost 100s of thousands of € and postal services are fed up with it! It’s not just coins, screws, nuts, badges etc, idiots put all sorts in flimsy envelopes, stick the cheapest stamp on and think it is adequate or that a human will handle it for the whole journey!

 

So Deutsch Post who own DHL said it was not possible to send goods in the normal post anymore, this is partly to do with not paying out for recorded delivery (that are now only allowed to carry documents) but also so that people would have to pay more for goods post or use DHL.

 

However if you pack your coins well, with cardboard etc, so they cannot get out and the envelope is firm enough to move through the machines no one is going to care. Make sure you send recorded so that if it’s lost you can claim money back in Egypt, don’t put more than the max claim for recorded mail plus what it costs you postage and packing in your swap and you will be okay.

 

Happy swapping

This information will be really helpful for me when I swap