GameFly Accuses USPS of Breaking Discs, Favoring Netflix, Blockbuster

From DailyTech: Video game rental service GameFly and the United States Postal Service (USPS) could be headed to court over accusations that USPS breaks thousands of game discs each year, and offers preferential treatment to Netflix and Blockbuster.

GameFly claims it sends 590,000 games to its subscribers each month and receives 510,000 of the games back. Around one or two percent of the total games sent each month are reportedly broken by USPS.

Ars Technica estimates that GameFly could be losing up to $295,000 per month in broken video games, if each game costs $50 to replace and one percent of all games each month are broken.

The video game rental service filed an official complaint with the Postal Regulatory Commission, accusing USPS of discriminating against the company.

To help reduce the number of games damaged, GameFly wants USPS to manually sort all of the games -- rather than use the automated sorting system -- which inadvertently damages CDs.

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