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As you gear up to start shipping packages all across the country, you may be tempted to ensure your package gets special treatment by writing “Fragile” on the side. As one former UPS employee Sara Ohlms points out, this will do a world of nothing for your package at best.

Lest you think this is just one ex-employee’s personal experience, Popular Mechanics did a study back in 2010 measuring how roughly marked and unmarked packages were treated with sensors inside the packages. The results showed that labeling a box as “Fragile” got worse treatment.
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Story: http://lifehacker.com/writing-fragile-on-a-package-may-result-in-worse-trea-1458730236