Packaging gone wrong.

[JasperFrank]

I kid you not, that I ordered a single 36 inch door sweep, and it showed up in this box.

 

[newbury]

What's the problem?
I grow trees, used to make cardboard.
Was it carefully packaged with brown crumpled paper so it didn't get damaged?

 

[HS345]

It may have been the only box they could get. You know, with all the "supply chain issues".

 

[JasperFrank]

I love getting card board, cause it is so useful for templates and paint masking and other things, but REALLY? This is absurd to a point of being amusing.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

I have had 12"x12" boxes filled with bubble wrap to protect a 3" x1/2" electronic component..... not kidding.....

 

[Ken45101]

I have had 12"x12" boxes filled with bubble wrap to protect a 3" x1/2" electronic component..... not kidding.....

I remember a hermetically sealed can containing padding and a Mylar sealed pouch containing: (1)-switch-waterproof. ( This was USAF surplus electronics.)

 

[sd455dan]

I kid you not, that I ordered a single 36 inch door sweep, and it showed up in this box.

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At least you got everything you ordered.


My grille guard box showed up with a hole big enough in it that it lost some of the parts.

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[Jstpssng]

I must have been a cat in a previous life, because I like boxes. It seems like no matter how many I have around they always get filled up.

That was a bit of overkill though.

 

[Moxie 15]

as a former manager of a shipping dept I see at least three good reasons for this packaging.

1. It was the smallest available box at the time of shipping
2. The company has a policy that boxes look professional and neat while keeping contents safe and secure. This precludes cutting a box to fit the contents.
3. The department was very busy at the time this order came through and it was cheaper and more expedient to use this box and the required amount of packing material than to custom make a box of a more appropriate size.

We should not be so quick to judge or criticize when we do not have all the facts.

 

[seville009]

as a former manager of a shipping dept I see at least three good reasons for this packaging.

1. It was the smallest available box at the time of shipping
2. The company has a policy that boxes look professional and neat while keeping contents safe and secure. This precludes cutting a box to fit the contents.
3. The department was very busy at the time this order came through and it was cheaper and more expedient to use this box and the required amount of packing material than to custom make a box of a more appropriate size.

We should not be so quick to judge or criticize when we do not have all the facts.

I don't think he was criticizing......

It was just kind of humorous that a small item came in a large box.

 

[5030]

Repurpose it as a cat condo...lol

 

[Raul-02]

, and it showed up in this box.

well consider the fragility of the sweep and its vulnerability to bending damage. They put in a big enough box with padding so it is unlikely to get all twisted up from manhandling in shipping and it's too big to roll over with a fork truck coz they'd see it.
Odds are they had to replace more than a few of these and finally learned that a bigger box is key.

 

[Tinhack]

I like getting large boxes like that. I use them as a pad when I need to lay on the ground--For getting under a tractor or vehicle. Lots of "stickers" (burs to you yanks) around here.

 

[oosik]

JasperFrank - you never mentioned - what was the condition of the door sweep when you got it??? I have large chunks of cardboard stored in my work shop. Do the exact same as Tinhack. No burrs - just don't like lying on the wet grass/cold ground.

 

[5030]

I use the cardboard for targets on my range. Makes a nice backer.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I like getting large boxes like that. I use them as a pad when I need to lay on the ground--For getting under a tractor or vehicle. Lots of "stickers" (burs to you yanks) around here.

Mason Williams even wrote a song about that called "Them Sticker Getters".

 

[Tinhack]

I use the cardboard for targets on my range. Makes a nice backer.

I don't have my pictures transferred to this PC yet so can't post them. However, I use paper plates for targets. I have those spring paper clips attached to my cross rails to hold the plates.

 

[HS345]

I don't have my pictures transferred to this PC yet so can't post them. However, I use paper plates for targets. I have those spring paper clips attached to my cross rails to hold the plates.

That's a great idea.

 

[grsthegreat]

I had Generac ship me a new engine for a generator. It arrived in a perfectly sized box encased in expanding foam packets. No issue there. Paid reasonable cost of shipping for a heavy object. 2 days later i got a 12”x16” x 12” box from them that weighed nearly nothing, but had a shipping cost of over $16 . It contained 2 regular pieces of stationary about epa requirements on replacement engines…..i mean, they could have been folded and mailed in envelope. After repeated calls and complaints, i never did get reimbursed.

 

[dlctcg]

I am always much happier with excessive packaging over lack there of... I can not tell you how times we have received damaged item do to the lack of packing (either due to experience or lack of concern). We collect old oil / kerosene lamps & I can not tell you how many times we have received damaged / broken 100+ yrs items due to negligent packaging; even from experienced seller & shops. It has gotten so that we now require either a picture of the packaged items or for then to take the item to a professional Pack & Ship place... (Hard to replace 100yr + old items).

On a different note love cardboard, use it under vehicles, paint shields, gun & archery targets, templating... it's free & when I'm done usually still recyclable