Packaging overkill!

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I ordered a roll of Fablon from Amazon and it arrived today in a ridiculously huge box... talk about overkill! I've left the coffee table and sofa in view to give you an idea of size :eek: I also remember ordering an SD card once that arrived in a box about a foot square with oodles of bubblewrap and crushed brown paper when it would fitted in a little jiffy bag. What's your take on packaging overkill?

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We’ve had packaging over kill Jennie now the bubble wrap is the big stuff and the amount of paper is shocking
 
Agree received a pair of garden tree loppers from Amazon and the box must have been ten times the size it needed to be.
 
It beggars belief sometimes doesn't it? I also received today a bullseye bubble spirit level for the dash... it's the round green bit in this photo, sitting in the box it came in, which is more than a foot wide! Surely they could have tucked it inside the same box as the Fablon :unsure: My recycling bin will be overflowing this week...

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You're right Trixie... heads should roll :LOL:
I've often read about people who stand in the supermarket after they've paid for their shopping and remove all the nonsense packaging and hand it back to the staff. Wish I had the courage (y)
 
I'm a postman and we deliver a lot for amazon and so many of my customers comment on how big the box is for what they have ordered they must only have a small selection of box size
 
You might like to think again about complaining to Amazon.

I once raised a concern about packaging, providing evidence. For a while after they plagued me with automated questions regarding the quality of subsequent item's packaging. I decided it was a battle I couldn't be bothered about winning.

:-(
 
Minisorella said:
You're right Trixie... heads should roll :LOL:
I've often read about people who stand in the supermarket after they've paid for their shopping and remove all the nonsense packaging and hand it back to the staff. Wish I had the courage (y)
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its easy jenny....give it a go.................
justa thought.....you could take those boxes to supermaket....just leave them with the other boxes for customers......someone will find a use for them......
 
Amazon don't pay their taxes and our Local Authorities (i.e. us) pay to dispose of the waste they create.

Korky.
 
On the other hand i ordered a new glowing hands clock for the bedroom,it came in a makers shop box with just a add and stamp but on opining it the ruddy glass was smashed to bits,cannot win.
 
I think the pickers and packers that work for Amazon have such high targets to meet that they don’t have time to think and just pack as fast as they can - it probably would take too much time to search for more appropriate packaging. There was an interesting article in the NY Times and London Times a few months back by an indercover reporter about their working conditions and time targets
 
Some years ago I was given a tour around Amazon by the American boss.

It was a highly automated and productive place, and has since appeared on television. The Milton Keynes DC had Post Office staff working there. The packaging was selected from a reasonable range of possibilities on individual workbenches at the end of a conveyor.

To provide a box the huge size of yours means the packer had lost the plot and was in the wrong job. I wouldn't mind betting he has already benefitted from additional training or left the building.
 
Minisorella said:
You're right Trixie... heads should roll :LOL:
I've often read about people who stand in the supermarket after they've paid for their shopping and remove all the nonsense packaging and hand it back to the staff. Wish I had the courage (y)
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That's definitely something I would do, Jenny, no courage needed for me - but only if I could be bothered to find the time to waste ;)

I do wonder if they overkill on packaging to avoid people pulling a fast one about claiming their items have been broken in transit?

Everything nowadays seems to be based on preventing claims & counterclaims, so just a thought.

The ease with which we can all now shop and buy virtually anything online means even more single-use packaging material ending up at the tip or immediately going back for recycling - what a hideous waste of materials and energy.

Also, it's not just the packaging for posting stuff, the amount of unnecessary packaging on everyday items bought at your local shop/supermarket is totally crazy too.

It's definitely something where legislation of some sort might help, but exactly what I don't quite know?
 
Minisorella said:
You're right Trixie... heads should roll :LOL:
I've often read about people who stand in the supermarket after they've paid for their shopping and remove all the nonsense packaging and hand it back to the staff. Wish I had the courage (y)
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i do it from time to time in large shops... i did it in Homebase 2 weeks ago. ... no one has ever refused to take it off me.... if enough of us do it in a supermarket maybe things will change
 
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