Just an isolated horror story, but it is what happened the only time I used 'registered mail': The tracing feature failed to work at all and showed the gun still at my post office two weeks after mailing. The local PO said they had the signature proving it went to Atlanta. What actually happened was the gun made it all the way to it's destination PO (Cleveland), but the clerk who signed for it put it in a locker without signing it in and left for a vacation. Nobody knew where the gun was, and the guy I sent it to was beginning to question my good faith. Anyhow the clerk returned to work and the gun was delivered, finally...Geo