My pet peeve. Part 17.

[inhawaii]

Why on Earth would any seller do this?

Throw 2 light bulbs in a box loose to rattle around.

No newspaper.

No brown paper.

No styrofoam peanuts.

No air pillows.

Nothing. 

[mtgraves7984]

The packaging on those bulbs is strong, although i would at least tape them down, they shipped without breaking and still function.

@deltilogical 

Yeah. It worked for that banana (duct-taped to sheetrock) that sold for $6.2 million. It functioned... the buyer ate it. 🤣

[a_c_green]

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@mtgraves7984 wrote:

It worked for that banana (duct-taped to sheetrock) that sold for $6.2 million. It functioned... the buyer ate it. 🤣

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Well, that work used a real banana, so it might as well get eaten by someone before it simply rots away.

The real money was in the duct tape. You can't stick a banana to a wall with just anything and call it art. 😁

[pickapaper]

@sin-n-dex 

I'm not kidding about high end stores mailing their clothing in poly mailers.  It was a shock to me to receive a pricy jacket in a poly mailer instead of a box from Saks, and that men's store has always shipped in boxes but the last shirt my husband got was sent in a poly mailer.   Seems like it's becoming more the thing to do.

I also order cosmetics from these stores.  What is really funny is when I order several items and they ship in multiple boxes.  (So far, they still use boxes.)  I once ordered six small items like mascara, etc. that was sent in four boxes.   At first I thought it was to prevent someone from claiming that something wasn't in the box but there really is no rhyme or reason how they ship them.  

[aproudparent2010]

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@inhawaii wrote:

Why on Earth would any seller do this?

Throw 2 light bulbs in a box loose to rattle around.

No newspaper.

No brown paper.

No styrofoam peanuts.

No air pillows.

Nothing. 

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@inhawaii wrote:

Why on Earth would any seller do this?

Throw 2 light bulbs in a box loose to rattle around.

No newspaper.

No brown paper.

No styrofoam peanuts.

No air pillows.

Nothing. 

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My brother bought a digital camera once and it was just in an old graham cracker box. No padding and not in another box or padded envelope.

[sin-n-dex]

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@pickapaper wrote:

@sin-n-dex 

I'm not kidding about high end stores mailing their clothing in poly mailers.  It was a shock to me to receive a pricy jacket in a poly mailer instead of a box from Saks, and that men's store has always shipped in boxes but the last shirt my husband got was sent in a poly mailer.   Seems like it's becoming more the thing to do.

I also order cosmetics from these stores.  What is really funny is when I order several items and they ship in multiple boxes.  (So far, they still use boxes.)  I once ordered six small items like mascara, etc. that was sent in four boxes.   At first I thought it was to prevent someone from claiming that something wasn't in the box but there really is no rhyme or reason how they ship them.  

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The Bay is not much different (with several boxes being shipped), I think the reason the Bay does it is because their items ship from different stores. Maybe Saks is the same if they have multiple stores with inventory all over. I only know of a Saks in California (forget where) and I think there's one in New York. So not sure if they have the same coverage in the US that the Bay has in Canada (with a store in almost every major city).

I haven't ordered clothes from the Bay recently, I think the last thing I got was shoes and that was during COVID. Shoes always come in a box, but I think the box might have been in a poly mailer.

I actually just got toner for my printer in a polymailer (although the toner comes in a box), when normally Best buy shipped their toner in a box. So I think doing away with boxes is the latest "thing".

C.

[bdmh-enterprises]

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@wastingtime101 wrote:

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Because they shop on Amazon, Walmart, Target and that's how all their packages arrive. They think that's acceptable packaging.

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Amazon uses packing paper and air pillows these days. I appreciate it because I always keep it to reuse in my own shipments.

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I have not been seeing the amount of air pillows in my wife's orders that we have had in the past. More packing paper than anything.

I reuse all of it and liked the pillows best.

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My last package from Amazon had neither paper nor the plastic pillows. 😓 

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Yeah, Amazon seems to usually have no padding these days. Usually for most stuff like those LEDs it doesn't matter. Doesn't bother me a bit, less trash and better for the environment. Sure that's not really why they do it, but the result is still good.

Not too long ago my wife did get a Wally order where the item was about small toaster size, came in a box that barely fit through the door. With, no kidding, almost 20 FEET of air pillow lol. One continuous strip, will be working on that for a while.

[bennotbill]

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@sin-n-dex wrote:

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Shoes always come in a box, but I think the box might have been in a poly mailer.

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I often used to pop in a couple of local shoe shops to pick up any empty boxes. But the last time an assistant told me, and showed me, that their shoes now come in a large cardboard box with the pairs inside just in plastic bags.

[sin-n-dex]

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@bennotbill wrote:

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@sin-n-dex wrote:

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Shoes always come in a box, but I think the box might have been in a poly mailer.

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I often used to pop in a couple of local shoe shops to pick up any empty boxes. But the last time an assistant told me, and showed me, that their shoes now come in a large cardboard box with the pairs inside just in plastic bags.

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Might depend where you get the shoes. If I go to Walmart, there's no box with the shoes, they are all open on a rack tied together for me to pick out and try on.

I order from a Canadian leather shoe company and they come in boxes, most don't make very good shipping boxes. They do make very good bird toys (cut out a hole in the side and it's a bird box for the bird). The current bird doesn't have a bird box because it makes her very aggressive (it's a nesting thing).

C.

[inhawaii]

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@gurlcat wrote:

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@inhawaii wrote:

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@gurlcat wrote:

Sooooo ..... what these for @inhawaii ?  Does the closet Maui Wowie do better with an array of colored light? 

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Hahaha!

Two post lights in front of my house.

Made one red and one green for the holidays.

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Aw-AWWWW!!!!  That's so sweet, now my joke feels all douchey. 😞
This is my first Christmas alone since 2005.  Not ALONE-alone; I'll be at family festivities on the Eve, but living alone (kid moved out this spring).  Seeing the lights and hearing the music are all so bittersweet now.  But if you take a pic of your house decor I'd love to see it.   Christmas in Hawaii does not compute but I bet it's great. 

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[gurlcat]

Oh wow that looks really cool!!  Something about it is giving Wizard of Oz vibes, LOL. 

[inhawaii]

A little snow would make it look nicer.  😉

[gurlcat]

Have you lived anywhere besides HI? 

I grew up in Iowa so I've had my share of snow, but I have to admit I miss it a little in December. 
I've lived in Mobile AL on the Gulf Coast the past 10 years -not as tropical as HI of course, but enough that it never snows here. 

Welllllll almost never.  Every few years there might be a flurry that doesn't stick to the ground or anything.  But in 2017 ..... get this ..... December 9th, exactly seven years ago, we got this glory.  And it didn't melt for a few days!  So there were kids here who never saw snow before, never got to make a snowman before, just like little Scout and Jem in 'To Kill A Mockingbird.' 

[fbusoni]

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@sin-n-dex wrote:

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@deltilogical wrote:

You seriously order lightbulbs off ebay - you don't just pop into a hardware store and get what you need?  I don't understand people at all anymore.

The packaging on those bulbs is strong, although i would at least tape them down, they shipped without breaking and still function.

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OP ordered them as Christmas decorations. Perhaps the hardware stores in Hawaii don't have what he needs.

I order clothing off eBay (once I figure out my size for a particular designer), and buy candy on eBay. I can go to the local 7-Eleven to buy candy, but like the OP, I'm ordering something I can't find locally. Why pay shipping if you can buy it locally? I figure if you're willing to pay shipping it's because you can't get it locally.

C.

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Precisely... I have found that sometimes it just makes more sense to have something delivered.  And the selection online is often far greater than what is available locally.  Not to mention a fraction of the cost.

Also... there is something marvelous about the luxury of having something delivered to one's doorstep.   We struggled financially when I was a small child... I remember our weekly treat was going to the Woolworth's for the Sunday $1 breakfast special.   The fact that I can have Amazon drop off something in 24 hours or less is, to me, pretty amazing.

[pickapaper]

@fbusoni  wrote:  Also... there is something marvelous about the luxury of having something delivered to one's doorstep.   We struggled financially when I was a small child... I remember our weekly treat was going to the Woolworth's for the Sunday $1 breakfast special.   The fact that I can have Amazon drop off something in 24 hours or less is, to me, pretty amazing.

Same here, but I do feel sorry for all delivery drivers.  I know they work their tails off, especially this time of year.

When I was a child, we ate out at a sit-down restaurant one time a year, on Easter Sunday.  At a Chinese restaurant.  Don't ask me how my parents started that; I don't know, but probably because not that many restaurants were open on Easter back then.   I also remember that my dad would leave a tip on the table and my mom would always come along behind and pick it up.   

[lonebuck-books]

Looks like an Amazon shipment.  I get stuff from them all the time packed exactly like this.  They must figure the cost of replacement of a small percentage of items damaged in shipment is cheaper than the cost of properly packaging every order.  I will say that even though annoying to get shipments like this, I rarely if ever actually get something that was damaged because of lack of packing material.  I can guarantee that Amazon has done the financial calculations (as they have metrics for EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING) for this and have determined no packing material is worth the risk of damaged items.