I have a ups store in town from me, and a post office a bit closer. Between lost, and long transit times, I now shipp everything with ups. Insure it, and on the odd event something happens to the package its covered. I git the run around from the post office too many times, when dealing with tracked packages that mysteriously dissapeared and they wouldnt stand good for it. If they could clean up their mess, I'd happily use them again. But at this point I dont think $5.00 for regular mail could fix the kind of stupid usps does.