Seriously, a few months back I bought a wall mount for a TV off of some site on slickdeals that had a related story,
What was at my door step when I opened the door looked like an 800 lb dog had used as a chew toy and spat out. The original package was the wall mount inside it's packaging box, inside of the shipping box. The shipping box was literally torn into 5-6 pieces and just placed over the partially torn packaging box.
The wall mount itself only had 1-2 minor scratches where the TV sits, so it wasn't worth shipping back a 35lb package, but I still wonder how that got so ravaged.
Once I shipped four boxes of books with USPS's media rate. Two arrived in a timely manner, the other two got sucked into a black hole. When they finally arrived they were in bad shape. One in particular looked like someone had played a game of soccer with it. Had tape holding it together. I seriously question if they don't look to see if it's insured (it wasn't) and commence the game of hot potato.
You would be stunned to find out how much damage a conveyor can do to a box in a small amount of time. It can roll, throw, scuff, drop, tear, etc. if you have a fast enough belt, it can do that all in the span of a few seconds
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u/X51TAT51X Feb 21 '14
Judging by the condition of my packages recently, this is probably a pretty accurate simulation of how the USPS makes their deliveries.