OT: Unopenable packaging

Invented for you!

"Amazon Certified Fustration-Free Packaging"

I hate that packaging too, though I normally manage to be slightly careful and not damage things while opening it :-)

ISTR you can buy a tool to open those horrible plastic cases. Guess what it comes in?

BTW, opisometer.

Or Wealemefna.

Nowadays totally overtaken by google maps

Don't blame manufacturers, blame shoplifters. Small things have to be in large hard to open packs or too many get nicked!

Mike

You could use a bit of string and then use the map scale to measure how long the string is.

For road maps maybe

Not if you wan to plot an off road . Though there are some third party services that use GM that can

Which doesn't cover items sent in the post.

Oral-B Electric Toothbrush today was a classic example.

It is to protect and present the product and prevent people tampering with it. They should proved a pull tab for opening it though. In some cases it would be useful to be able to re-use such packaging to store the item.

Not straight google maps though. Gmap-pedometer is ok, but it's still not great at some things.

I find a simple cheap tin opener is perfect for these types of plastic packages. The ones with the rotary blade that clamps around tins

Then they have the cheek, at least sometimes, to charge more for products packed in cheap card rather than expensive plastic.

I use the big scissors with a serrated edge from the kitchen that are designed to cut up chickens. Cut around the outside of the packaging, cutting the welded together edges off.

Only real downside is that you can't return the item for a full refund if you don't like what is inside.

But few manufacturers have different packaging for stuff which will be posted.

Supposed to reduce theft, innit? Can't get a small item out of the big packaging in the shop, and slip it into your pocket.

Amazon can abandon that as they don't have shops.

Anyone remember the sudden change to larger packaging, many years ago, for Gunson's Colortune? The small packages were being nicked from the shop floor, so shops kept them behind/on the counter. Fewer customers saw them and looked at them. Gunsons made the packaging a lot bigger, the items went on the shop floor, and sales went up.

Davey scribbled

Goggle Earth - path measuring feature works for me.

I'll take a look at that, thanks. Although now I have my thingy (opisometer?), it would be a shame not to at least try it!

Carry a knife.