[Fresh Wind]

I always heard shippers singled out fragile items for especially rough treatment.

UPS (United Parcel Smashers)
USPS (Usually Smash Priority Shipments)

[barker]

I always heard shippers singled out fragile items for especially rough treatment.

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Someone that was a postal worker for years once told me that packages marked fragile only meant they were tossed underhanded and not overhanded.

[usconservative]

I always heard shippers singled out fragile items for especially rough treatment.

I used to repair/refurbish old tube radio's/tube ham radio transceivers as part of one of my hobbies and I shipped them all over. The UPS clerk at the UPS store told me the very first time I asked to have "Fragile" stickers put on a box I was shipping not to do that. For the exact same reason you cited. Anything marked "fragile" is a target for abuse for UPS/FedEx/USPS, etc..