Video: 1,000 baseball, football cards lost in mail – USPS wants ‘evidence of value’

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. – More than seven months after a Platteville woman mailed 1,000 of her son’s baseball and football cards to him in Seattle, they still have not arrived and neither has the insurance payment she took out on the package.

Brugger said she placed the cards, which had been in her attic for the last 30 years, into a taped box that she sent to Seattle at the end of April. It included rookie cards of football Hall of Famers Walter Payton and Steve Largent and baseball Hall of Famers Paul Molitor and Ken Griffey, Jr.

She took out $500 in insurance on the package, which was eventually sent to the U.S. Postal Service’s recovery center in Atlanta.

“They don’t want to pay the insurance because they want proof of value of what he paid for them,” Brugger said. Read more

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