AusPost launching a US mail forwarding service

[griffin]

It's not DHL or Australia Post... it's the airport luggage-handlers (in that video), who have no accountability or responsibility to treat the "luggage" with any element of care. Particularly if *their* bosses have them on a tight schedule or don't pay them enough to take pride in their work.

It's probably why Australia Post stopped having "fragile" stickers, because they know how the airport workers operate... and figured that they couldn't do anything about it, or couldn't risk the airport workers refusing to handle their freight in retaliation.

[Mythirax]

The Parcel I just got from amazon was smashed in, all the transformer packaging in it was ruined beyond belief and crushed in. Yet some how every figure was not damaged the slightest. Yet the boxes for them look like a truck ran them over. I should of taken a picture, it was terrible.

[Ravagecat]

It's not DHL or Australia Post... it's the airport luggage-handlers (in that video), who have no accountability or responsibility to treat the "luggage" with any element of care. Particularly if *their* bosses have them on a tight schedule or don't pay them enough to take pride in their work.

It's probably why Australia Post stopped having "fragile" stickers, because they know how the airport workers operate... and figured that they couldn't do anything about it, or couldn't risk the airport workers refusing to handle their freight in retaliation.

I realise it's not Aus post that is directly responsible for this... I was merely jesting at the possibility that the same airport sub contractors in that video handled my parcel. If they are so hard done by when it comes to pay and gratitude for the job they are doing then they should look for another job instead of taking it out on other peoples property. In my job when I'm stumped by a a particularly difficult issue or get some pressure from my boss to complete certain tasks in certain time frames I don't start flinging my users computers around the room

[griffin]

I agree entirely. I just remember the mentality people had at my last job (Coles Warehouse) that the property wasn't theirs, so they didn't take much care with the stock or the equipment, because there was negligible supervision, so it was easy to walk away from a mess or damage equipment and not be held accountable for it.
(people would only get into trouble if it was something significant, or something they owned up to... hence, the incentive to say nothing, because people with honour and respect would get into more trouble AND paid less)