as everyone has said you really can't get the money back for more than materials and that is pushing it. I would definitely wrap in a plastic bag of some sort and then tape the box up so well that if it should get wet the box wont get damaged and definitely use a sig. to deliver. but that is depending on where the package is being sent. my neighborhood might not be a problem to have a package sit out for an afternoon but there are some that as soon as the mail person is gone so is the package.