I needed to return a faulty soap dish to Amazon. So, I found an absolutely enormous box, filled it with spare padding, and stuck the soap dish inside.
That's really helpful, as the recycling bin is rammed with stuff.
Taking lessons from CPC :)
My favourite was an IC chip, from Honeywell, which had graduated increasing sizes of packing which culminated in a cardboard box about
18" x 12" x 8".Davey.
I ordered a load of bits and bobs just to get above the free carriage price, because I wanted a particular AV adaptor. A very large box appeared, carried by a really grumpy person who struggled up the steps at the side of the house, ignoring the notice advising people to walk up the drive. The box had a small hole. All the makeweight things were inside it, but not the AV adaptor. I searched around, without success. CPC instantly sent me a replacement. A month later the gardener paused from sweeping up leaves and said, "Wozziss?" The missing item had fallen into the leaves. It was too rusty to use.
Bill
CPC use a big box, and then pack the fragile component in one corner then pad round it. Thus leaving it exposed to damage on three sides.
Also had several of those recently. ;-(
The last online Boots prescription order (one small packet of tablets) for the Mrs was in a box big enough for a couple of pairs of shoes but I wondered if there was a 'good reason'?
Like, I believe they ask when you apply for online / delivery if there could be children or pets that could get to the meds if posted though the letterbox and even though we said no, if they force some things to have to be handed over because of the risk?
I mean, even my Amlodipine is sent in a paper bag in a plastic bag, in a box that is often too big for our fairly big letter box when they are already packed in blister packs in a cardboard box? WTF?
Cheers, T i m
Screwfix once sent me two drill bits in a box that you could have fitted 12 bottles of wine into.
Jonathan
A parcel that I had ordered arrived today. It had been delivered to the wrong address. It was not obvious who it had come from, but I thought it might be Amazon so I rang them and they recognized the code beginning QR on the box. I thought they might arrange a collection, but no, I was told that I could keep the contents.
Somewhere I am sure you can review your purchase, and one item is about whether the packaging was appropriate.
Contents worth keeping?
Amazon's packers work in three teams, one doing small packages, one doing medium-sized and one for the largest. The 'system' tells them which sized box etc to use, taking into account the sizes of the items in a shipment. Sometimes it gets it wrong. They have someone whose job it is to keep all the packers stocked up with their packing materials but sometimes a packer will be out of a particular sixe and it will be easier to use a larger box. (Some years ago I sold something on eBay and just as I was about to pack it up the buyer asked a question that appeared to cast doubt on my integrity, don't remember the details now, so I took the item out of the appropriately sized box I had just placed it in, and put it into a much larger box that I filled up with polystyrene chips. Probably senseless but it gave me pleasure to do and to recall.)
I have now opened the parcel and fortunately yes. It is possible that the parcel was delivered yesterday when we were out and then entered the house by the back door. I think the purchaser had already complained and been recompensed.
Yes, may moons ago when I could see, it must have been in the 90s, I ordered some logic array chips for the Spectrum plus 3. These are 1in square chips with legs all round the outside, from CPC. The three I ordered would have been fine in a jiffy bag as the came on a bit of cardboard inside an anti static bag from Amstrad via CPC. No they sent them out in a 1ft square cardboard box with little poly worms, scrunched up paper, and some bags of air inside. Why? Is it somehow cheaper to send a light big box than a padded envelope? Brian
Is this a new spinoff of the other thread? Brian
Naw, big box, enough air bags to stop most movement but not enough to stop heavy things moving about and mangling more delicate things. Though a 6" pillar drill vice and a packet of large (glass) fuses might be pushing the limits. B-)
What I find amusing is the way boxes filled with air bags bulge at the sides when they get up here.
I am careful now to order things in separate deliveries when I see that might be a problem.
Is that why CPC boxes often have OVERPACK printed on them?
Some couriers often find it easier to handle big things in the back of the van. I once received a printer ink cartridge flopping around on a 9" cube box with air bags.
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