An exasperated Amazon customer has posted a video of 62ft of wrapping paper snaking through his house - that was used to "protect" dog food.
Nick Taylor said the box used to deliver the bag of food was "big enough to live in" and claimed the food didn't need to be packaged at all.
Nick laid out the 19-metres of packaging paper in his home in Bath and posted the video to Amazon's Facebook page.
The trail starts in what appears to be a utility room and leads in to a dining area before entering the kitchen itself.
From there the paper enters the hall, where the dog food can be glimpsed in its heavy plastic packaging.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/exasperated-amazon-customer-films-62-12259048
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 01 2018, @11:47AM (4 children)
Yeah, but - I have 15 acres and a couple of out buildings to store stuff. Still, there is a limit. Eventually, you need a warehouse to store excess packing material.
It's amazing, one package arrives with almost perfect packaging. It's like someone scientifically calculated just how much cushion is needed, got the exactly sized box, and carefully cushioned the product 3 dimensionally. The next box - enough, or even more than enough cushion - all underneath the item that was meant to be cushioned. And, of course, it was dropped on the top.
What kills me, more than the parcel carriers, are the trucking companies. I'm wondering where the hell they are finding drivers these days. We get shipments in at work, all the time. The percentage of loads with moderate to serious damage has increased to about 50% and maybe higher. Truckload shipments vs LTL shipments (less than truck load) has always been kinda poor - the LTL is subject to being moved multiple times before arriving at the destination. But, anywhere near 50% damage is simply unreasonable.
I would trust any of the parcel carriers more than I would trust the LTL delivery companies, these days. Maybe that's what has happened - the parcel carriers pay more, so the better drivers have migrated over there. LTL companies now serve as training for new drivers?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Sunday April 01 2018, @12:31PM (2 children)
Ask the driver what "Fragile" means and they will say "That's Italian: 'Frajilley' which means 'smash it' (or break it, or crush it, etc).
It seems to be a joke.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday April 01 2018, @02:51PM (1 child)
But... you're not quite sure?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Gaaark on Sunday April 01 2018, @05:15PM
I doubt it's funny to the person sending it.
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(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday April 02 2018, @06:59AM
The problem isn't the companies per se, it's that they're trying to squeeze more and more delivers out of a fixed number of drivers in less and less time. If you've been given 60 minutes to run 240 minutes worth of deliveries then the only way to make that happen is to cut corners wherever you can, which generally means damaged items due to lack of care taken. As a user of these services, the only options you really have are (a) go with a better, but also far more expensive service (almost no-one wants to do this), or (b) plan defensively and pack the crap out of your product so that, no matter how it's thrown around during shipping and delivery, it won't get damaged.
Using six furlongs of packing paper (whatever 62 feet is) for a large bag of dog biscuits seems to be one example of this. Amazon ship a bazillion packages a day, and their over-protective packaging is presumably due to extensive knowledge of what an overloaded delivery system will do to their shipments otherwise.