That all got shifted with the non-conveyables (noncons). You’d have to be “certified” to put it in a can.

We tried not to spill the vats of bull semen and human tissue, but both happened at least once.

I worked for FedEx for a year and a half almost 20 years ago.

Shower doors were called rain sticks because they all sounded like it and we’d just send the box on. If it was leaking glass, we’d tape it up first. Aquarium fish got liquified after the box spilled and the bag broke on the fast belt. Saw gallons of bull semen spilled once. “Human tissue” spilled from “poorly” taped coolers a few times. Lots of broken golf clubs. All kinds of shit just lost from broken/crushed/mangled boxes. I know it got pocketed by a few people if no one was looking and small enough. Heck, I know a person who mysteriously had 3 broken iPod packages in a single shift. There was an angry dude that used to stomp on expensive shit like dell boxes for shits and giggles.

And that was a decent job … We had a 20hr/wk guaranteed minimum and full benefits.

Just want to shift the blame here: that culture is set by management. The likelihood of damaging any given item to the extent that a claim is made is low enough that throughput is prioritized for profit. It’s a shitty statistics game and your “fragile this side up” means nothing.

I threw boxes for FedEx for a while at an airport. And yeah, “nonconveyable” freight (oversize/oddly shaped/overweight/hazmat) gets handled differently and holy shit is it a nightmare simply because its isn’t easily stackable. Overweight? Yeah, we just tipped that out of the can and let it fall so we could roll it onto the low belt and into the next can. Over/oddly sized? If you’re lucky it got set aside and shoved on top. If not, it got crushed by whatever got thrown on top.

And sidenote: that box looks great, especially if it went through more than one ramp sort.