Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box

Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box by Mountain_Skies on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:40PM (#20453193)

Amazon sometimes gets things wrong when it comes to packaging but they're light years ahead of Wal-Mart when it comes to right size packaging. I've only ordered online from walmart maybe half a dozen times but each time the box was too big and the contents were all flopping around hitting each other. I haven't tried their store pickup yet but have been amazed at how poorly they've implemented box packing for delivery.

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Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box by lholden on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:57PM (#20453331)

I generally like to bunch up my orders such that (hopefully) as much of my stuff as possible gets packed into the same box.

A recent order though had two things of eye liner in it aaaaand... of course they ended up in their own very oversized box. (I did go back and make sure that part was also fulfilled by Amazon. My guess is that someone just thought it would be funny to ship a package that is 99.5% empty :D)

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Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box by yellow_postit on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @05:56PM (#20454268)

I wish there was an option to bunch up the orders more to reduce packaging at a cost of greater shipping times or even some additional fees (could pitch those as carbon credits to reduce waste). This was something Jet had encouraged really well.

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Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box by Johnny555 on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @06:07PM (#20454325)

Amazon Prime lets you choose a "Prime Day" and when you place an order, you can choose to have it be delivered on that day of the week.

Not a perfect solution since sometimes orders come from different warehouses so are still packaged separately, but it's a pretty good way to combine orders into less packaging.

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Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box by e40 on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:59PM (#20453355)

I once ordered a golf umbrella from Amazon and it came in an 8'x4'x6" box. Like it was a whiteboard or something.

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Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box by Rebelgecko on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @05:05PM (#20453905)

I recently ordered a nylon shoulder strap that came in a package about the size of a 2.5 inch hard drive. The box it came in was so huge I could barely get my arms around it, and there was probably 50 feet of bubble wrap inside.

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Re:Amazon's Vanishing Cardboard Box by throwaway10928 on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @09:09PM (#20455519)

For some reason that reminds me of the 'Super Size Me' movie. Bigger is better! Right?

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