# Post Office Dilemma...Any Advice?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-dilemma-any-advice/556120>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 5, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-dilemma-any-advice/556120 "2010-10-05T14:51:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2010, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-office-dilemma-any-advice/556120/21 "2010-10-07T01:28:08Z")

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> [@Arnold\_Winkelried](#):
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> If you think you might get in trouble for misrepresenting the contents of the package, instead enclose a framed photo of yourself on your wedding day, send it to yourself, insure for $400, and say “that is the emotional value of the photograph.”

Won’t work, you have to prove the dollar value of the item insured in order to collect, and if there’s any question, the USPS won’t pay up.

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