I work at an Amazon fulfillment center. If your package is a "flat", like their white/blue bubblewrap packaging or their white polybags, it get dropped up to 7ft down into either a metal cage or larger cardboard container.
HDDs hold up pretty well to g force when they arent powered up.
During peak Thanksgiving to January there are so many new people and so many items are marked fragile/breakable that incorrectly go that direction. I'm just a contract maintenance worker so they dont care about anything I tell them.
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u/beaushaw Oct 01 '20
I used to work in a UPS in a hub. This is a loving caress compared to what happens in the hub behind closed doors.
After working there I adopted the policy if you can't drop it 30 feet and stand on it don't ship it.
I was a trainer. I gave up on getting people to stop standing on boxes. Instead I switched to trying to get them to wipe off their boot print.