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Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes:
Amazon wants to make massive, hard-to-open boxes a thing of the past, according to a Tuesday report. Last fall, the e-commerce giant asked companies to make packaging for larger items more efficient and easier to open by Aug. 1, The Wall Street Journal reports. If companies don't follow suit, they'll reportedly be charged a fine.
The changes Amazon reportedly hopes to roll out would make packages more environmentally friendly and cut back on shipping costs. Amazon wants all items to eventually meet similar standards, according to the Journal.
Vendors told the Journal they reduced the volume of their packaging anywhere from 34% to 80%. Some also cut down on the number of components used to ship their products.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 31 2019, @03:05PM (3 children)
It doesn't help when there's a case of canned soup, 2 bottles of liquid shampoo, and a laptop PC all thrown in one big box with little bubblewrap. The soup busted open the shampoo and soaked everything.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 31 2019, @11:08PM (1 child)
Why would cans be packed with bottles like that?
(Score: 1) by optotronic on Thursday August 01 2019, @02:09AM
Ask Amazon.
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday August 01 2019, @03:26AM
The most preposterous Amazon shipping choice I encountered was a couple years ago when Amazon decided to ship a ~30-pound butcher's block and a small box of wine glasses in the same ENORMOUS box (i.e., the large butcher's block took up less than 10% of the volume), with maybe a single sheet of crumpled packing paper stuffed in.
Guess what happened to the wine glasses? Oh, and the outer box itself was almost destroyed by the butcher's block sliding and flipping around during shipping (though the outer box still arrived sealed, albeit somewhat crushed). Not only could that have injured someone with wine glass shards spilling out (which thankfully they did not), but just the imbalance caused by a huge mass almost invariably off-center in the shipping box... well, if you tried to pick it up wrong, I'm sure it could go falling or flying or whatever.