Ridiculously large box for a memorycard.. - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 01:14:55 pm
content: I

author: dexters_lab
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 01:52:20 pm
content: had something similar a long time ago in the early 1990s, we received a box about big enough for a old style PC desktop case, UPS priority shipped from IBM somewhere in the USA to the UK.Deep inside several layers of poly chips was a small box that contained one single 3.5" floppy disk, which it turned out we didn't actually need

author: dr.diesel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 02:06:08 pm
content: You sure it wasn't packaged by the US government? Nobody else could possibly be that inefficient...

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 02:31:40 pm
content: Some companies send to much stuff they have contracts with dhl/ups etc to pay by weight or number of pallets of shipped stuff ... volume of each package is less important.It's better to ship it in a box instead of an envelope... they probably already have shipping contracts and a cheaper shipping fee for packages (and not envelopes).Envelope could be crushed under heavier packages. Envelope could fall off a conveyor belt or get pushed off by larger packages.As for size, it doesn't make sense to stock various cardboard packages so they probably took a stock box they had around and just used it - it makes no difference to them price wise.

author: PA0PBZ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 03:00:16 pm
content: I agree, but for this you will need some magical pallets:Quote from: mariush on July 31, 2013, 02:31:40 pm

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 04:09:51 pm
content: What's unusual about this? I've seen pieces of paper with license keys shipped like this. Not sure if the paper itself was ESD dissipative, but at least it was well protected.

author: _Sin
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 04:14:55 pm
content: This is Dell, shipping a bunch of CR2032 batteries:

author: bitwelder
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 04:47:23 pm
content: Quote from: alm on July 31, 2013, 04:09:51 pmCase in point, HP:http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packaging/(check also the other cases reported by ElReg on the 'Aboxalypse now' saga)

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 04:58:43 pm
content: HP sent a bag of screws for a server to us once in a box that big but there was a smaller one inside.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 04:59:21 pm
content: Quote from: ErikTheNorwegian on July 31, 2013, 04:32:19 pmThe volume of packing tape the Chinese tend to use is approximately the same as the size of that Agilent box, however.Quote from: bitwelder on July 31, 2013, 04:47:23 pmI've never seen it that bad. But unless that cardboard has a metal foil layer inside, this packaging lacks an ESD shielding bag. Meaning that I could zap the paper right through the cardboard box.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 07:12:01 pm
content: Quote from: Pippy on July 31, 2013, 06:44:38 pmI attended a meeting at a former employer on company waste a few years back. One of the products that we made was contact lens solution and they said that many customers had complained that the box was much bigger than it needed to be for the product inside, and while they agreed, the problem was the production line that the product came down was used for a dozen other products and since the grabber device only needed the bottle top to be the same size, they could use any bottle they wanted but when it came to changing the box size, a lengthy process was involved that required taking the line down for several days to reconfigure it and wasn't cost effective. They also had to reconfigure the machinery that gathered the product boxes and put them into cases since a smaller case would be needed.It was just one of those things that makes more sense when you can see it from the production side.

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 31, 2013, 08:19:56 pm
content: I ordered a slim form factor desktop PC (media centre type) from Maplin once -- they shipped it in a box which would fit a fridge in, FedEx express and all...

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 01, 2013, 12:48:04 pm
content: I ordered some solder paste for digikey about a week ago, came in a massive box, in the box was the standard receipt/invoice, some of their mesh-cardboard packaging, then a huge foil insulated bag with 4 ice/freezer pouches in it, inside that bag, there was another,with another 4 pouches, then inside that was another foil bag with the solder paste and 2 more pouches, both which were still very very cold after 3 days!