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@rocket2retro wrote:
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No matter which carrier you use your parcels will be thrown around & Australia Post state that they drop parcels from a conveyor belt at a height of 2 metres (and then theoretically may drop parcels up to 20kg on top).

A while ago I posted some parcels at my PO and the contractor arrived at the same time. He proceeded to toss all of the parcels in through the sliding door of the van (with force and at a distance of almost 3 metres). They were literally bouncing off the back wall of the vehicle. If this is how they treat parcels in front of the customer. I hate to think what goes on at the depot (out of view of the public). 

You really need to pack breakable item with these potential scenarios at the back of your mind.

Hopefully you find a solution.

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It is not only the contractors who don't give a proverbial ship, I've seen a post office person walking on top of parcels strewn on the floor behind the counter. Lucky she wasn't wearing stiletto heels, could've been worse.

Pack everything as if posting an egg. (old corflutes are handy to strengthen the inside of a box, light weight too - combined with bubble wrap, polystyrene pieces whatever, not too hard to get that egg across the country, or world, in one piece)