I never used to but so much has gone missing lately I tell myself that it is only £1 more to ensure it for £50. Standard post only covers you up to £20 now. I had an experience a while ago returning a pericone tsv, you can imagine the value so something told me to send it special delivery, very expensive I know but I needed to cover the value. Well it was signed for but qvc didn't refund me so I phoned them and when I gave them the receipt number I got the refund. They can so easily say they never received it back but with a signature you can prove them wrong. Anything under £20 it is covered under Royal Mail