I ship through a Mailboxes Etc. type place here, and the owner of the store has recently stopped doing FedEx ground as well, due to the number of problems and the terrible time frame involved in getting an insurance claim through their process in the event that they do break or lose something.
I always ship UPS ground personally. As cheap or cheaper than USPS, and I know where it is.
In fact I'm in an argument with a user on another forum right now who bought a case from me. He insisted on USPS rather than UPS, and the box arrived somewhat demolished, with the plastic bezel on the front of the case broken.
Since he insisted on USPS rather than UPS, as most users of this particular forum do because they're sheep in general and 'everyone else uses them'
(reboot knows which forum I'm talking about
), he's just SOL on this one.
Lesson is, if it's important don't go to the post office with it.
Xayd