Is It big Enough

Amazon driver called and here's what he delivered

Did you know that your question is the very same one that the people in the Amazon post room asked of their boss?

It was the time he suggested they stock 5379 different sizes of packaging just so they could ensure that the envelope was never more than 5mm bigger then the item to go inside it.

Big packets don't get lost as easily as little ones.

Zoro can beat that with ease. A couple of small items in a box that my cat can curl up into. Apart from the small items, the rest was filled with very large plastic inflated sausages. The cat doesn't complain!

Andrew.

Zoro can beat that with ease. A couple of small items in a box that my cat can curl up into. Apart from the small items, the rest was filled with very large plastic inflated sausages. The cat doesn't complain!

Andrew.

If the item is at all fragile, I'd rather have more packaging than less.

Amazon went through a phase [possibly still ongoing] of minimalist packaging, called "frustration free packaging", otherwise known by me as protection-free packaging.

I lost count of the number of books I had to return because they were damaged in transit. Even a set of books weighing 10kg and costing £180 were sent this way - and damaged.

The loss to Amazon of such returns is probably trivial in comparison with the cost savings, across the whole business, of reducing packaging time [and materials] to a minimum.

Edited By Bill Phinn on 26/02/2023 18:57:51

RS have been doing this for years.

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By comparison … I bought a pair of oscilloscope probes from a U.K. seller on ebay

The nice plastic storage wallet, and the instruction leaflet, were crumpled and creased because everything had been crammed into a much-too-small ‘padded mailer’.

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MichaelG.