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I've shipped several hundred items via FEDEX Ground in the past few years. I've foregone the expense of insurance, and I apply the savings towards better packing material and better boxes. I frequent a surplus box warehouse that sells box overruns. Double wall boxes are dirt cheap (much cheaper than a single wall 200 lb box from any shipping outlet).

Then, I package the item to withstand a nuclear blast or similiar.

Yes, I still incur damage, but it's usually not terminal. I just chalk it up as the cost of doing business. Fighting UPS/FEDUP is only going to raise my blood pressure, and I would pay money to avoid that.

Just my opinion,
Jürgen