I’ll occasionally post something on Facebook showing photos of ridiculous packaging. I once ordered a camera strap (the sort with one thin cord that slips through a loop on the camera, and a thicker one that goes around your wrist). It would have fit in a business envelope. It came in something the size of a shoe box.
Then there was the time I had bought a card of some sort - either prepaid antivirus, or a service plan, for my son’s computer. From Dell, I think. It was gift-card sized.
It, too, came in something the size of a shoe box.
I must bitch about the packaging for antihistamines (hay fever season is in full swing here).
Why are the multi-packs constructed in such a way that it would take the Incredible Hulk to shove a pill out through the foil covering (probably crushing the pill in the process)? The individual segments are also unpeelable, so I wind up having to use a scissors to cut through them to get to the medication.
Maybe it’s an attempt at anti-tampering or child safety, but it seems like an unnecessary pain in the ass.
Noting that these are generic equivalents of Zyrtec and Allegra. Maybe it’s the price you pay for “cheap” OTC meds.
I use a small knife to cut a slit in the foil covering. I can then turn them over and pop the pills out into a pill bottle I have just for that operation.
Hey, Jeff my grapefruit body wash is always leaking and my cute socks are a month late. Yeah I notified them my expected date has passed twice. You paying for them bad boys.
The second and third items actually came from a different warehouse, a huge center Amazon built way out west in the suburbs of Calgary. I’m in Ontario. Strange, because they were very ordinary commodity items (some USB power adapters, and an external HDD). But there’s no reason they could not have been sent to the local warehouse (in fact, I think that’s what will happen tomorrow) and then everything shipped together – one box, one trip. Today’s delivery was totally unnecessary. My “guaranteed delivery date” was tomorrow for all items when originally ordered, so getting one item a day early was wasteful and pointless. Plus the gigantic box!
I’ve bought multiple items from Amazon and chosen the “Amazon Day” delivery option. I thought the whole point of that option was that all your items would get packaged together, thus using less packaging material, in addition to saving their drivers from making multiple trips. But while the items do show up on same day, quite often each item is packaged in its own delivery box. Or worse, they throw the small item in one of those plastic envelopes instead of packing it in the same box with my other items.
I used to buy cat food from Amazon, but switched to Chewy a few years ago. And Chewy packages it way better.
Chewy: The case of cat food it placed in special packaging specifically for shipping canned goods, which goes in a shipping box just a bit bigger than that package, with a little bit of crumpled brown paper packed around it.
Amazon: The case of cat food goes in a giant box, with a few of those plastic air bags thrown in.
