I have however, heard the saying “Treat it like you STOLE it”, or “Drive it like you stole it”. Perhaps I had a different upbringing and circle of friends than you did.

Also the postal sorters mess up a lot of them through those paper sleeves so it’s not so easy to figure out who did it. The cost to put them in boxes and protect them would more than quadruple postage.

whether it’s bad design or or intentional a lot of them do get damaged in dvd players. .

Up until about 5 years ago blockbuster would refurbish the scratched discs. But on a no late fees model theres no money to fix your discs that get damaged, by the post office(those postal sorters are brutal on DVD’s), customers, dvd machines, Xboxes that have had a known issue with scratching discs since launch. By mail is even worst than in store, they and Netflix pay close to the price you pay at Walmart for a disc. Then on a 15 dollar a month that includes all postage, handling and maintenance of thier distribution centers and those really expensive sorters and personel to run them they have to move that one disc about 15 times to make a small profit. Sounds pretty reasonable till you realize to be successful you have to have every bad movie made as well as the popular ones.

If we figured it out in 1970 dollars your discs make about 10 cents vs the 5 dollars they made back then. Factored in for inflation it’s a lousy business model for the owners. That’s why they’d like to dump the dvd business and go to streaming. But Hollywood wants even more money for that and that could be another dozen threads on hollywood’s stupidity and greed.

Now days people have the same motto, unfortunately they treat their own stuff like shit, so that’s how they treat other people’s stuff ;(