Hand-Carried Trading Card Courier

Extraordinary Cards Deserve Extraordinary Care.

White-glove, hand-carried courier service for the world's most valuable trading cards. One trusted professional, from pickup to delivery. Nothing changes hands in between.

50States
covered
1Courier,
start to finish
0Sorting
facilities
Example deliveryNew York to Las Vegas · $65,000 Declared · By Air
Landed
The ledger

Carried, Not Shipped.

$0Declared value hand-delivered
0Deliveries completed
0Items lost or damaged

Updated after every completed delivery.

Investment

Transparent, By Design.

Local DeliveryA courier picks up your card and drives it straight to the person receiving it, anywhere within 50 miles of Las Vegas. It is never shipped or handed to anyone else. $449

Hand-delivered across town

  • Within 50 miles of Las Vegas
  • Cards worth up to $25,000
  • Hand-carried, never shipped
  • Photos at pickup and drop-off
  • Your courier’s direct number
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Nationwide DeliveryA courier flies to you, picks up your card and hand-delivers it to the person receiving it, anywhere in the U.S. Flights and hotel are already in the price. $2,499

Flown anywhere in the U.S.

  • All 50 states
  • Flights and hotel included
  • Cards worth up to $50,000
  • Photos at pickup and drop-off
  • Your courier’s direct number
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Need something else? Request a custom quote →

The core difference

From Hand to Hand. Never Out of Sight.

A single, vetted courier maintains physical, unbroken possession of your card from pickup to delivery, anywhere the journey takes us.

What’s included

Included in Every Delivery.

Not upgrades. Not add-ons. The baseline on every run we take.

Live GPS Tracking

Your courier’s live GPS location, shared to your phone the whole way.

Vetted & Under NDA

Executive protection background. Under NDA from day one.

Direct Phone Number

Your courier’s cell. Not a call center queue.

Multi-Layer Verification

Single-use code, photo ID, and photos at the handover.

Zero Handoffs

One person, pickup to delivery. No depots, no relay.

Timestamped Photo Record

Several angles at pickup, and again at the door.

Transparent Pricing

Airfare and lodging inside the number. Any other charge is quoted before you agree to it.

Nationwide Coverage

All 50 states. If we’re not near you, we fly to you.

Veteran Owned

You reach the owner, every time.

On the record

These Are Not Hypotheticals.

Five cases on the public record, every one about trading cards handed to a carrier.

Every case above is on the public record, linked to the office or news report that published it. These are individual cases, not a judgment on carriers as a whole — but each one began the same way: cards were handed to a network instead of a person.

How it works

Simple. Secure. Personal.

01

Request

Tell us the card, origin, destination, and timeline.

02

Pickup

Your courier takes personal possession, hand to hand.

03

In Transit

Live GPS location, plus direct contact with your courier.

04

Delivery

Handed to the authorized recipient, confirmed on the spot.

Exactly how it works

Every Step, In Plain Sight.

From the moment your courier arrives to the moment your card is in the recipient's hands, here's exactly what happens — and exactly when you'll hear from us.

01

Pickup

  • Your courier verifies ID before accepting the card.
  • The certification number is confirmed against your request.
  • The card is photographed from several angles and timestamped, documenting its condition.
  • It's sealed into a locked, protective case carried inside an ordinary bag.
  • You receive confirmation the moment pickup is complete.
02

Transit

The case stays in your courier's custody the whole way, in a car, on a plane, or overnight. You'll get a live update at every milestone:

Pickup confirmed
En route
Arrived at the airport
Through security
Wheels up
Wheels down
Through arrivals
En route to delivery
Delivered

Airport milestones apply to flight routes. Ground-only deliveries get pickup, en route, and delivered updates.

Weather or airline delays happen. If they do, your courier stays with the card and you're updated the moment we are — never left guessing. Any extra cost that comes with it, like an overnight hotel, is on us, not you.

03

Delivery

  • Your courier verifies the recipient's ID.
  • The unique verification code set up at booking is confirmed before handoff.
  • The card is photographed and timestamped once more, on arrival.
  • It's handed over in person, and you're notified it's complete.
The handoff

It Only Opens for the Right Person.

A card that travels perfectly and then reaches the wrong hands hasn't been delivered. Every booking generates a single-use code that only you and your recipient hold.

  • One code per delivery. It reaches you once your booking is confirmed, and you decide who receives it.
  • Your courier asks before releasing. No code, no handoff — even if the person is standing there expecting the card.
  • Identity is checked alongside it. The recipient's photo ID is checked against the name on the booking before the card is released.
Delivery code
642903
Generated once, per delivery. Never reused.
Built on a different kind of experience

People You Can Truly Trust.

Our couriers come from executive protection, military, and law enforcement — decades of experience protecting the world's most prominent people. Now, that same discretion, judgment, and training is devoted to protecting your most prized cards. Every courier signs a non-disclosure agreement the day they are hired, and it stands for as long as they carry for us.

Built for private collectors, grading services, and auction houses moving cards too significant for ordinary shipping.

Custos is owned and run by its founder — a veteran, a close protection professional, and a Christian. The second explains the training. The third is why the standard holds when nobody is watching.

The world’s wealthiest people trusted them with their lives. You can trust them with your card.

Why Custos

Why a Courier, Not a Carrier.

CUSTOS 1 Pickup Delivery PARCEL NETWORK
VETTED & UNDER NDA
Live
DELIVERY CODE 642903 Single use. Checked against photo ID.
Nationwide Delivery $2,499 Airfare included Lodging included Total $2,499

Operating in all 50 states. Cards are what we do most, but the same courier carries watches, jewelry, coins and other small pieces of serious value — ask and we’ll quote it.

Before you book

Questions People Ask.

One vetted courier, from your door to the recipient's. The case stays in their custody the whole way, in a car, on a plane, or overnight. Your card is not handed to a second driver, a sorting facility, or anyone else along the way, because there is no along the way. Every courier is bound by a standing non-disclosure agreement from the day they're hired.

Your declared value sets the maximum we are liable for — it doesn't establish what a card is worth. A claim is settled at the lesser of your declared value, the documented fair market value of the card in the condition we received it in, and the per-item and per-trip limits that apply to your booking. Those figures are shown to you before you pay.

Every booking generates a single-use delivery code that only you and your recipient hold. The courier asks for it before releasing the card, and it is never reused. It's stronger proof than a signature, because a signature only records that somebody took the package.

Whichever suits the route. Local Delivery, Grading Runs and Scheduled Routes are driven. Nationwide Delivery is usually flown, and the airfare is already inside the price you're quoted — there is no expense bill afterwards. If a flight is delayed or cancelled, any extra cost is ours, not yours.

Forty-eight hours is comfortable. Same-day and next-day requests are accommodated when a courier is free, but they aren't guaranteed, and a card worth this much is worth not rushing.

You can reschedule at no charge with at least 48 hours' notice. Payments themselves are final and non-refundable — when a date is booked, a courier's day is committed to it.

That's a different product and it's priced differently — see Grading Runs. Your submission stays under your own PSA account in your own name; we collect it prepared, drive it, and hand it across the counter.

No. We collect what's needed to complete the delivery and nothing else. We never sell it, and we share it only as our privacy policy describes.

Private request

Request a Courier

Your price is on this page, not behind an email. Pick a service, enter a declared value, and see the number before you hand over anything. We recommend booking at least 48 hours ahead — shorter notice is accommodated when we can.

Step 1 · Your price

Local Delivery covers Las Vegas and towns within 50 miles.

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This is the most we’re liable for, so be accurate.

Pick a service and enter a value to see your price.