> On November 8, 1958, he sent the precious stone via registered, First-Class Mail, from New York City to the Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The postage cost him $2.44, plus $142.85 for $1 million worth of insurance.

$142.85 to insure a million dollars of merchandise in transit seems like a pretty good deal.

I can’t even get USPS to honor mail forwarding requests or not frequently misdeliver mail for entirely different localities to my home.

...let alone not deliver at all for days due to "inclement" weather. Makes you wonder how Scandinavia or Switzerland cope...