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I order shorts - comes in a box with the air bags to inhibit movement, etc. I order a tablet and a ball mount (heavy sucker) and they come in a box without any air bags or protection for the tablet from the ball mount. The plastic packaging for the light adapter (also in the order) was destroyed. 1) How the tablet escaped unscathed is a miracle 2) WTF Prime? "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | ||
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I am not sure who to blame. Last week I ordered an air pressure meter/valve for one of my HVLP sprayers. The box was 14x10x8 with bubble wrap. Inside was a 4x6x4 box with paper packing. In it was my 3M valve box > 2x2x2.  | |||
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Not really from Vienna |
Saturday I got a solar battery charger for my farm truck, delivered in a box big enough to have held two dozen of them, padded with a single sheet of brown paper. I think it must be the packaging crew's way of retaliating against their cruel employer. | |||
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| Dances With Tornados |
I ordered a new kitty litter pooper scooper from Amazon Prime. It arrived in a box approximately 18x10x10. I assume they were out of smaller appropriately sized boxes. | |||
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Pickers and packers are often seasonal help. | |||
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Drill Here, Drill Now |
I received an undamaged Amazon box, and opened it to find zero padding and a damaged manufacturers box. At first, I thought it was damaged during shipping then noticed the manufacturers box was taped shut with Amazon prime shipping tape. They mailed me a damaged box in hopes I would accept it. Nope. They got had to send me a new one and pay UPS to bring back the damaged one. Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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For real? |
Ordered glass protector for my phone, arrives cracked. Orders from China arrive undamaged. Come on, Amazon, do better. Not minority enough! | |||
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thin skin can't win |
As an AMZN owner this always disturbs me. Some of the packing is crazy, and surely is costing more due to size. You only have integrity once. - imprezaguy02 | |||
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| Caught in a loop |
My sister's fiance works for Amazon corporate in Seattle. I texted him out of the blue because I wanted to vent about the Prime packaging. His response: Leave packaging feedback. Detail precisely what they did right, and what they did wrong. They actually do read the reviews, and implement changes where necessary. "In order to understand recursion, you must first learn the principle of recursion." | |||
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Casuistic Thinker and Daoist |
Was the later from a 3rd party vendor or straight from an Amazon warehouse? No, Daoism isn't a religion | |||
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We order a lot from Amazon at work & have seen a lot of this. Plus our receptionist likes to just drop the boxes on the floor with no regard that there could be fragile items inside  because "it probably got beat up worse in shipping, than that little drop".The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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Tablet, ball mount, light adapter all in the same box from warehouse (I usually order only where amzn is the sellor or if the 3rd party has > 5000 reviews and ships directly from amzn warehouse). I never order from 3rd party, ships from 3rd party. If I use amzn, it comes from amzn or a larger, well established company. Shorts, well protected by a box full of air bags, were a different order / different box. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Wayfair is worse. Set of three Victorinox Professional knives came in a plastic display type box....well, one of them still was, the other two were rattling around in the bottom of the tear-proof bag it was shipped in, no padding. Wtf! | |||
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The best was I ordered 2 Optima group 27 agm batteries......They were each in a box about twice the size of the battery, no padding, no nothing.....imagine picking up a package with a 70lb battery rolling around in the package.....the boxes looked like they got run over by the UPS truck but the batteries were fine. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
Plus how much training and education do you need to be a packer? I think the best Amazon can hope for is the packers put it in a big enough box and protected as necessary. As much data as Amazon has, I'm thinking they can create a program that dictates the box size and level of protection needed for the items in a shipment. it would be similar to those programs that determine the optimum layout for loading a pallet with product. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Wife orders our dog food via Prime. Each bag comes in an appropriately sized box, with a healthy dose of that brown paper inside that is supposed to take up the extra space. But the dog food bag just flattens the paper, so it is a waste to even use it. I donate it to our local mom and pop shipping service, usually a fully stuffed 33 gallon trash bag full (we get 4 bags of dog food per shipment). | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Their packers obviously do not grasp the purpose of "packing material." "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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parati et volentes |
I ordered a textbook for my son in August. Normal textbook size, paperbound, and around 1/2" thick. It came in a box about 4 feet long, 16" wide, and 2" thick. | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yup. We typically get 100-125# of dog food a month and see the same thing. | |||
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Plowing straight ahead come what may |
On the Amazon "write a review" page there is also a write a review on shipping...kinda like Goldilocks and the Three Bears...was the package to small, to large or just right, as well as how easy was it to access and was the contents safely packaged or damaged in any way... I always post both honest product reviews as well as shipping reviews. ******************************************************** "we've gotta roll with the punches, learn to play all of our hunches Making the best of what ever comes our way Forget that blind ambition and learn to trust your intuition Plowing straight ahead come what may And theres a cowboy in the jungle" Jimmy Buffet | |||
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