RE: The Feasibility of Posting Precious Metals
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Since you're in Australia, there's a limit to what I can offer that might be useful. International mail can be a dodgy proposition, particularly if you're just sending ONE item each to multiple countries.
Here in the States, we sometimes "workaround" through eBay, which has its own global shipping, and its own delivery connections a bit like Amazon. But I don't know if there's an Australian version of the eBay International Shipping. If there IS, you could "sell" the prizes to the winners for something like $1 and they pay eBay for shipping... and you get their internal tracking door to door.
Alternately, a mail forwarder? Again, that requires a certain volume of packages.
All in all, it's tricky. Been in the global sales biz since 1985, and in online sales internationally since 1996... and there are no secure and easy answers I have found.
Wow. That is a left field solution there. Its crazy enough that it might even work! We do have ebay in Australia but I am not experienced with it.
Might have to play with that idea a little....
The eBay thing only works if you have a legitimate transaction made on eBay (which can be for $1.00), and select "eBay International Shipping" as your carrier of choice for non-Australian destinations. It's awkward, but it works.
When we mail valuable old postage stamps (one of my lines) we typically just use International post registered which requires signatures at every point of transfer... but it doesn't help much if you're sending to a place with sketchy mail service, like certain parts of South America, Africa and some FSU republics.