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A ot of shippers dont know how to pack properly, or dont know special requirements of certain items-Turntables with heavy platters, need to have the platter taken off and wrapped separately, for example.. Then there are a few items where the design of the item makes them especially hard to ship successfully- some items just don't handle the way packages are handled these days. The little RCA 45 changers are a great example. The later RP-190's usually survive, but the RP-168 attachments- the ones with the metal tonearm rarely survive intact. The heavy changer chassis is attached to the Bakelite case with 3 screws. so one good shock in shipping and the chassis breaks away from the cabinet, often wrecking the Bakelite cabinet. If you're lucky, just the mounting posts break and you can still re-glue them, but usually cracks go all the way through the cabinet. The packaging needs to absorb sudden shocks, not easy to get right. The one I bought lucked out and just the internal posts were broken, and I was able to save it. It was well packed otherwise, and there was no external damage to the package.
I've seen boomboxes arrive with the power transformer broken away from the circuit board.
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