Packaging gone wrong.

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I kid you not, that I ordered a single 36 inch door sweep, and it showed up in this box. :)

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It may have been the only box they could get. You know, with all the "supply chain issues". :rolleyes:
 
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I love getting card board, cause it is so useful for templates and paint masking and other things, but REALLY? This is absurd to a point of being amusing. :)
 
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I have had 12"x12" boxes filled with bubble wrap to protect a 3" x1/2" electronic component..... not kidding.....
 
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I have had 12"x12" boxes filled with bubble wrap to protect a 3" x1/2" electronic component..... not kidding.....
I remember a hermetically sealed can containing padding and a Mylar sealed pouch containing: (1)-switch-waterproof. ( This was USAF surplus electronics.)
 
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I kid you not, that I ordered a single 36 inch door sweep, and it showed up in this box. :)

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At least you got everything you ordered.


My grille guard box showed up with a hole big enough in it that it lost some of the parts.

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I must have been a cat in a previous life, because I like boxes. :D It seems like no matter how many I have around they always get filled up.

That was a bit of overkill though.
 
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as a former manager of a shipping dept I see at least three good reasons for this packaging.

1. It was the smallest available box at the time of shipping
2. The company has a policy that boxes look professional and neat while keeping contents safe and secure. This precludes cutting a box to fit the contents.
3. The department was very busy at the time this order came through and it was cheaper and more expedient to use this box and the required amount of packing material than to custom make a box of a more appropriate size.

We should not be so quick to judge or criticize when we do not have all the facts.
 
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as a former manager of a shipping dept I see at least three good reasons for this packaging.

1. It was the smallest available box at the time of shipping
2. The company has a policy that boxes look professional and neat while keeping contents safe and secure. This precludes cutting a box to fit the contents.
3. The department was very busy at the time this order came through and it was cheaper and more expedient to use this box and the required amount of packing material than to custom make a box of a more appropriate size.

We should not be so quick to judge or criticize when we do not have all the facts.


I don't think he was criticizing......

It was just kind of humorous that a small item came in a large box.
 

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