There are different types of pallets.
On the one below, for example, the forklifting fedex doofex will need to go through the side walls before he can poke through the speaker box (might be worthwhile if some speaker being shipped costs a pretty penny). Light up such a pallet like a christmas tree with fragile flags. Also, there are some other smaller freight companies that actually care a bit to have ya as a return customer.
fedex and ups are not the only gigs in town.
America could generally learn from the Japanese (for example) about how to take care of things that belong to others, treat it as your own...Unfortunately, its a self serving culture that largely spawns entitled callous fwits.
@corelli wrote
The last pair of speakers I received last spring were on a pallet. So the jackass forklift driver put the fork right through the box! I'm sure pallets get dumped and abused as well as everything else.