Originally Posted by
blort
I've had the opposite experience. I've checked at least a dozen cases of wine, and I'd consider a wine bottle to be somewhat fragile. They've all made it fine.
Just use sturdy boxes, pack the contents with sufficient padding, and you should be fine.
Like blort, I've checked about a few dozen boxes in the past 2 years due to my move from west to east coast, all of them with wine. One of them has fragile stickers from WN, DL,
and UA - I think I was the only person who was amused by that.
They will ask what's the content, and ask you to sign a liability waiver. Unless it's truly unsuitably packed, do not let them mark that box, as some agents in JFK tried to do even when my wine was packed in wine shipper per UA's policy. Also, make sure they put on the blue "baggage" tape, and, based on status/cabin applicability, the priority tag.