Is It big Enough

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Amazon driver called and here's what he delivered

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

[DC31kParticipant @dc31k]

Did you know that your question is the very same one that the people in the Amazon post room asked of their boss?

It was the time he suggested they stock 5379 different sizes of packaging just so they could ensure that the envelope was never more than 5mm bigger then the item to go inside it.

[Oven ManParticipant @ovenman]

Big packets don't get lost as easily as little ones.

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Posted by Oven Man on 26/02/2023 17:23:10:

Big packets don't get lost as easily as little ones.

To true but they don't fit through the letter box when your not home

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[Andrew TinsleyParticipant @andrewtinsley63637]

Zoro can beat that with ease. A couple of small items in a box that my cat can curl up into. Apart from the small items, the rest was filled with very large plastic inflated sausages. The cat doesn't complain!

Andrew.

[Andrew TinsleyParticipant @andrewtinsley63637]

Zoro can beat that with ease. A couple of small items in a box that my cat can curl up into. Apart from the small items, the rest was filled with very large plastic inflated sausages. The cat doesn't complain!

Andrew.

[Bill PhinnParticipant @billphinn90025]

If the item is at all fragile, I'd rather have more packaging than less.

Amazon went through a phase [possibly still ongoing] of minimalist packaging, called "frustration free packaging", otherwise known by me as protection-free packaging.

I lost count of the number of books I had to return because they were damaged in transit. Even a set of books weighing 10kg and costing £180 were sent this way – and damaged.

The loss to Amazon of such returns is probably trivial in comparison with the cost savings, across the whole business, of reducing packaging time [and materials] to a minimum.

 

Edited By Bill Phinn on 26/02/2023 18:57:51

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

RS have been doing this for years.

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[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

By comparison … I bought a pair of oscilloscope probes from a U.K. seller on ebay

The nice plastic storage wallet, and the instruction leaflet, were crumpled and creased because everything had been crammed into a much-too-small ‘padded mailer’.

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