On the topic of shipping damages.
I remember reading a consumer reports article a couple of years ago....

Consumer Reports shipped a equal number of packages with fragile contents
through the three largest shippers... U.P.S., Fed-X, and the U.S. Mail. The
packages were shipped from various places around the U.S.

As I remember, the results were that Fed-X was the fastest and the U.S. Mail
the slowest... no surprise there...

But.... the U.S. Mail caused the least amount of damage to the contents of
the packages... Fed-X caused the most damage....

I guess the old adage 'haste makes waste' applies.

Bill Davidson