I try to buy things that do not have to be shipped far to try and minimize the risk of shipping damage which may well have become more of a problem in recent years. So many businesses struggle to do things well anymore in that there is a shortage of reliable labor in general. We have a local Brand new Starbucks that only has its drive through open half the time due to labor shortage. Even then it’s common orders come out wrong. Chick filet is fully open but also struggles to get simple orders right.
I'm trusting FedEx/ UPS less by the day
Many of the people working these high demand jobs in the shipping industry were already hating it before the pandemic and what not. Now I think many simply dont care one bit. Then you throw huge "fragile" and "do not drop" stickers on the box with a nice big beautiful picture advertisement of the component/ speaker on the outside box for everyone to see and its almost goading them to mess with it.
Recently bought a subwoofer and there was a hole/dent in the box so deep it penetrated through the 2nd interior box. Obviously this was dropped from some distance. Not too mention the fact that the UPS driver just flopped the box off the dolly causing it to roll forward on to its other side. Right in front of me. No apology or anything, just handed me the sign pad and acted like it was nothing. And that's how it's being treated in front of the customer I can't imagine what goes down in these warehouses.
Ok end of rant 🙂