Yesterday, I asked you guys to send in pictures of examples of wasteful shipping habits from online retailers that you’ve bought things from. You came through in spades. When you see just one example of Dell sending a flash drive in a box big enough for a laptop you think it’s an amusing fluke or a mistake; but when you see this many, you know it’s a pattern. Take a look at the Hall of Shame below, and then let’s figure out how to change this lousy practice.
the storeman
Thursday, April 24, 2008 at 1:49 PMthere is a thing called protocol.also many companies have strict packaging guidelines.perhaps that padded mailer they used to use got damaged in transit one too many times… or then again maybe the warehouse team is just lazy and uses whatever box is close at hand
Johnny Utah
Friday, April 25, 2008 at 7:41 AMI travel to the states about once a fortnight and end up purchasing electronic items over the net for family & friends. I am constantly equal parts amazed & appalled at the amount of wasteful packaging.
It really doesn’t surprise me anymore.
The icing on the cake is when the huge box for a tiny item is then filled with styrofoam popcorn – can it get any more environmentally destructive than that….?