One can only imagine that prior to being sent to the "assessment" centre, its already been assessed as being buggered in the first place..... still, keeps a faceless un-named beaurecrat in work! Also, see Lee Andrews (Andrews Communicaions/Sydney) has a full paragraph on his site where he requests that customers DO NOT EVER MARK PACKAGES AS
"fragile"! This thankfully doesn't apply to all carriers, but as with anything, there's always a dud about. I've been caught on rare occasions, but on the whole I've been lucky. I've also once had a letter from Auspost telling me my package was in the dreaded assessment centre. Oh No! When it arrived, all was good and they had done a great job of repacking a previously underpacked item. Its really a lottery though!
