I worked at UPS for a couple of months. Some of the things I learned: they have a high turn over rate. They only care about getting packages off trucks, scanned, and onto other trucks as soon as possible. Your package will take the same route every time, both directions. And unless you're mailing it something like one day across country, it will go by ground. I don't care if you paid for air.
To make sure your package is safe:
It's mainly the luck of the draw when it comes to which packages escape unscathed. There are frequent jams in the mess of conveyor belts, and all we do to get them loose is kick at the 'keystone' package. When I first started working there, my managers would always bug me about being too slow. They'd tell me to be less gentle (and illustrate this by hurling a couple of packages out of the truck.) Really, it's all about bomb-proofing your package, because the workers don't care, the managers don't care, and they know there's no way to catch them. I don't know if FedEx or the postal service are any better, but they can't be worse. Trust me.
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I worked at UPS for a couple of months. Some of the things I learned: they have a high turn over rate. They only care about getting packages off trucks, scanned, and onto other trucks as soon as possible. Your package will take the same route every time, both directions. And unless you're mailing it something like one day across country, it will go by ground. I don't care if you paid for air. To make sure your package is safe: It's mainly the luck of the draw when it comes to which packages escape unscathed. There are frequent jams in the mess of conveyor belts, and all we do to get them loose is kick at the 'keystone' package. When I first started working there, my managers would always bug me about being too slow. They'd tell me to be less gentle (and illustrate this by hurling a couple of packages out of the truck.) Really, it's all about bomb-proofing your package, because the workers don't care, the managers don't care, and they know there's no way to catch them. I don't know if FedEx or the postal service are any better, but they can't be worse. Trust me.