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Recently bought some new walking poles on the internet and they arrived on Friday ...is this the most inappropriate packaging (the box they are leaning against) you've seen or can you beat it?
I ordered an envelope of Avery labels from Amazon the other day and it arrived in a box big enough to have held at least 50 envelopes. It was stuffed with enough paper to keep your loo happy for a week! Didn't think to photograph it unfortunately. Makes you wonder...
Well, I ventured into a new world recently and bought a SD card.
I could not open the sealed plastic packaging 
How on earth do SanDisk expect you to use their products ? ! !
I was at an event at my local camera shop and eventually asked around for help and it was finally pierced with the tip of a corkscrew then once the opening was made a pair of scissors to cut out the card ! !
Ooh Packaging Rage . Amazon are beggars for using oversize packaging, I got quite excited about some of the deliveries before Christmas until I opened them up and found it was all paper wadding! The thermoformed packaging that SD cards and the like come in are ridiculously difficult to open and once you have you stand a bloody good chance of slicing your hand open on the sharp plastic edges. Have to say that although I'm not a great Apple fan, I always find their packaging to be intriguing, though not very environmentally friendly.
Quote: Do you mean to say that you did not order the optional 17 piece packaging opening kit priced at £156. 27 I'm surprised
Yes I did but it fellout of the box before it arrived!!!
Eric
My very small pancake lens arrived in a quite large box from Amazon, but they'd stuck the lens box right in the corner and stuffed some brown paper in the rest of the box which didn't really protect the lens box at all. I did fill in their feedback though and told them what I thought.
The UK's largest bike retailer Chain Reaction Cycles are notorious for sending tiny nuts and bolts in boxes the size a a very large shoe box. On another forum I hang about on, so many people were complaining and ranting about it that a CRC customer relations chappy came on and posted that it was because the boxes are easier to stack if they're all the same size and shape, both in the warehouse and in the vans. Which sort of makes sense...
I once had a memory card delivered from Amazon in a huge box.
On opening I found about 4 feet of that air filed cellophane, removed this but could not find the memory card.
Turned out the memory card had slipped under one of the bottom cardboard flaps, the box itself was effectively empty 
Last Autumn I was in a queue in the post office in Vitré, Brittany. I was behind a very elderly man who was carrying a parcel he wanted to post. It was about the size of a shoe box and was beautifully wrapped in brown paper. The only problem was he hadn't used a single piece of tape to secure the wrapping paper. Instead he had used just string, albeit tied with as much skill as his wrapping.
The counter assistant had a heck of a job to explain to him that he couldn't send it that way and that he would have to use tape. As he left the expression on his face betrayed his belief that whilst the world had undoubtedly moved on there were clearly things about it he was never going to get the hang of.
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