Baggage handler of the year

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I'm finding it hard to believe parts of this video. Reasons:
  • Most of those boxes had a hard impact or fell on the ground, not usually flat on either. But almost none of the boxes show any kind of scratch, dent or damage. In fact, you'd think those boxes were made of rubber.
  • Speaking of rubber, what was in them because that handler was picking up sometimes three at a time (granted, he was pushing them together), throwing them very haphazardly. Even if it were a sewing machine in each box, considering it's likely a smooth box with no actual gripping, three boxes at a time is pretty good......
  • Why isn't cargo like this transported in pallets or the like? Even if the aircraft could not take containers, is it rather unusual to be shipping cargo in single units rather than in a pallet, bigger box or strapped together in a bundle?

Not saying this video is a hoax (either on part of the video taker or the baggage handlers), but makes it slightly hard to be believable.

Is it entirely unbelievable that a baggage handler could carry on like this? Actually, no, and especially in Asia let alone in mainland China.

Obviously this video has gone viral now. Would be funny if this generated a response from the airline who contracted the baggage handling company.
 
Looks like the boxes CONTAINED rubber. Like a box of foam rubber the way they were jumping off the belt.

I smell a rat. Or at the very least a rubber chicken.
 
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