>>2646434After packaging your stuff, you absolutely must be personally able to take it and drop it 6 feet to a concrete floor.
Even in my middle-sized facility, we see upwards of 50-100,000 parcels a day. They all look the same and have to be sorted and dispatched. The average grunt does not care.
No, writing Fragile on it won't help. Strangely enough, parcels with "Fragile" written on it have an absurdly high chance of being squashed.
Paying extra for the legitimate special handling sticker will warrant express mail treatment, without the insurance.
However, that is still provided some clerks are paying attention to the stickers.
Express mail will pay out insurance on legit claims.
If you're shipping valuable stuff, you seriously can't go wrong with registered mail. It actually does not cost that much, and we do take extra care of parcels going through registered.
The insurance payout is much higher.
