USPS Strikes AGAIN!!

As a retired USPS employee I can safely say that is not the fault of the USPS. If items are not correctly packaged damage is going to happen. Open air spot=crush zone. Levers like what is protruding....shipper needed to line the box with solid stylofoam, place item in the center and stuff the **** out of it with peanuts. The USPS handles very little, if any, mail by hand. Thus video is of the APPS machine. It process all parcels at some time during their trip. Often times on both ends. Lets just say that your package was the first to be kicked off into one of those cardboard bins. What do you think will happen to your package, with that lever only being protected by a single layer of cardboard, when a 69.9 pound package lands on it? I always tell people you want to make sure your item is packed safely. Throw it across the room. Play soccer with it. Drop it from 8' in the air. I have posted time and time again how to assure your packages/letters arrive safely...but then again nobody reads my post so...
Christmas is coming. Heavy Monday is only a few weeks away. Please keep in mind that I set this record back in 2006...and from what I have been told it still stands today. In a 6 hour period I ran over 250k first class letters thru an AFSC...the stamp cancelling machine. Closest operator was 75k letters behind me. Know what caused the one or two jams I had during that time? Envelope flaps not taped shut, in particular the ends. There are at least a dozen or so gates in the machine These gates are high speed letter openers. Letters are not even an inch apart as they go hauling *** by these gates. One letter with loose flaps often takes out 30-35 letters behind it. Do not mail a stack of pictures. The in/shing will not so politely tear open your envelope and then feed the pictures individually into the feeder. Some will come out the fine cull, some will get shredded in the machine and others will end up in the reject bin. Now if the envelope ends up on the floor your images go right into the trash. Hey...I only worked there for 20 or so year so what the hell do I know..
The USPS used to offer tours to the public. But ever since the Bio Hazard systems were put in after the anthrax attacks they stopped. For some reason many members of the public think their letters are getting worked by hand by a clerk sitting in a case....they are not. Nor is your parcel getting handled by a human. Many pieces of mail do not get touched by a single human until they make it to their destination delivery station. Hell, when the old feed system was torn out and replaced by "Barney"...around the same time the BDS units were installed...letters from 9-10 years prior were found it the feed system....#weldthedoorsshut