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10 June 2010

Shipping. I ordered this small battery online and this is the box that it came in a few days ago. The nickel is for scale.→[More:]
It reminds me of those letters you get from the government where they spend 58¢ on postage to tell you that you owe them 6¢.

post by: chococat at: 20:07 | 7 comments

I had the same experience earlier this week. This came in a shoebox-sized box.

posted by amro 10 June | 20:14

Me, too. A lens filter arrived in a box not much smaller than an unabridged dictionary.

posted by Kronos_to_Earth 10 June | 20:30

Heh. I bought a bicycle seat on ebay and it came in an envelope. Which got ripped open. But luckily the seat made it, unscathed.

posted by Doohickie 10 June | 20:56

I hope you didn't have to pay shipping on all of that air!

posted by gomichild 10 June | 22:11

Yeah, everything I've bought online lately has arrived in embarrassingly large shipping boxes. You KNOW how small a single printer ink cartridge is ... now imagine it showing up on my doorstep in a 5x8x8inch box (with a lot of brown paper as biodegradable padding).

posted by oneswellfoop 11 June | 00:29

my guess is that it's cheaper for them to buy a bunch of bigger boxes because most folks buy more than one item at a time, so rather than have a lot of little boxes go unused they just buy a size or two up. Or they recycle and pay no attention to the size of the box they're recycling.

Anyway we have a shitload of these in our attic for when we move (which I hope is NEVER AGAIN).

posted by desjardins 11 June | 08:33

There's a fairly good roundup of excessive packaging photos on this article on The Register. I think my favorite is the mouse shipped on a full-size shipping pallet.

posted by FishBike 11 June | 18:04

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