It's amazing stuff doesn't get more broken during transit than it does due to rough handling, both by the carriers but by large mail processing centers at businesses and such.
I should know, I work in a fairly busy mail processing center at our client site and even if it says fragile on the box, it still often gets treated rough, just not as rough as most everything else, and too many people try to reuse boxes for shipping and we've had many parcels come through our mailroom split open from just use and over loaded to boot, weighing at least 20Lbs or more so massive amounts of packing tape are required, just to get it to the recipient on the campus.
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Date: 2010-08-26 02:19 am (UTC)I should know, I work in a fairly busy mail processing center at our client site and even if it says fragile on the box, it still often gets treated rough, just not as rough as most everything else, and too many people try to reuse boxes for shipping and we've had many parcels come through our mailroom split open from just use and over loaded to boot, weighing at least 20Lbs or more so massive amounts of packing tape are required, just to get it to the recipient on the campus.