(This isn't in "What's Your Deal" because it's a humorous observation, not a complaint.)

On the box:



What was inside the box:



Yeah, one could get at least four of those in there, easily.

What was inside the packaging inside the box:



"Made to fit ..."

(The product is ten 10mm x 10mm x 20mm magnets for a project. Oh: And they're in a little plastic box that's in a little plastic zip lock bag.)

My favorite was a 28oz glass jar of jam in a Tyvek envelope. It arrived absolutely flat-maybe an inch thick. Gotta say though, whoever wrapped a little thin bubble wrap and tape around the jar did a rather impressive job, in that the “smashed to smithereens” jar did not leak and there were no protruding glass shards.

I regularly get these giant boxes of air with a small object inside from Amazon.

I think they have their poor workers so stressed timing them to death that they just simply grab whatever is within arms reach and slap that order in there whether it’s a 2 foot square box for a 2 inch object or not.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
(This isn't in "What's Your Deal" because it's a humorous observation, not a complaint.)

On the box:



What was inside the box:



Yeah, one could get at least four of those in there, easily.

What was inside the packaging inside the box:



"Made to fit ..."

(The product is ten 10mm x 10mm x 20mm magnets for a

quote:

project. Oh: And they're in a little plastic box that's in a little plastic zip lock bag.)

If they're rare earth magnets, might I suggest a mini railgun.

Made to fit….just not very well I suppose. I mean it does fit inside the box.

We order a fair amount from Amazon and get packages like the OP shows. They Bytes family theory is that the folks working at the distribution center don't give a rat's ass. They package with what's close to them, especially around quitting time. Just a theory

And don't forget those big ass plastic pill bottles, for 30 count teeny weeny prescription pills. That bugs me too, as I get those Amazon packages as well, it's pretty funny.

I hate Amazon and their goddamn paper tape. I had a box literally rip apart as I picked it up to deliver today.

As for the package OP posted, I have no idea why they couldn't just slap a label on the plastic bag, or put it in a smaller cardboard box.

This was from several tears ago - we ordered a dog collar from Amazon and here is how it arrived...



Adios,

Pizza Bob

A friend of mine got a huge box from Amazon last week. She had ordered a few smaller items. The box was in fact addressed to her but was big enough for an automatic transmission.

After opening it and digging through a lot of packing material, she found two smaller boxes in the huge box.

Sort of related.

Today I got an email from amazon that I need to send back the item they replaced or I'll be charged for the replacement. Except I called them and explained that they delivered me a package with my neighbor's address and name on the package and that I didn't receive any batteries I ordered. That's why they sent me the replacement.


So I'll be on the phone going over all this drama a second time over 15dollars...

I am often mystified by what I get from them. My favorite was this empty box that I got from them a while back.

I understand how silly their box usage might be, but it seems like the alternative is similar to when I received a pack of flash drives from Amazon, and they simply affixed the shipping label to the bag that the flash drives were in.

Of the 10 I ordered, 2 were functional.

One could argue that the flash drives were cheap sandisk knockoffs, but I’m sure the economy packaging choice didn’t help.