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So earlier in the week I ordered a brand-x dropper, Shimano gear cables, chain, headset and some tubeless valves - had them sent to work as it's just easier than faffing going to the post office or arguing with Yodel.
So I got a text yesterday saying it had been delivered (by Yodel...) - great!
Get to work today and there is a wheel box standing on top of my desk - wtf?
I did think that Yodel or CRC had messed up here and sent me some one else's order.
Nope - I opened the box and there at the very bottom were said items.
I had a spare smaller box under my desk - items now repacked into something sensible sized for the journey home.
Anyone else had this?
Only one I had that was better was when I ordered 2 sets of 18650 batteries of Amazon. One set arrived in a cardboard envelope - the other set came in a huge Amazon box well protected with that inflatable padding and scrunched up paper.
Yeah they went my Brand X dropper in a box that was over a meter tall.
They have been inspired by Amazon's packaging this year, we've had some crazy excessively big boxes arrive for small items.
Contents: 1 brake cable!
(and an enormous drum that previously had 100 or so cables on it..)
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Same here - one order had 5 items, I got three boxes of increasing size (the biggest one being the size of a printer) and a small jiffy bag - the whole order could have fitted in the jiffy bag....
I have been known to use their free returns service with similarly disproportionate packaging.
See how they like a taste of their own medicine, eh?
Its because carriers ship by weight rather than by volume so they get rid of whatever box they have handy.
Yeah, got a bottle of chain oil the other day in a box my cat used for "I sitz" purposes for few days...
I thought they maybe have a beef with Royal Mail? 😀
jealous your orders have arrived mine has taken so long i have forgotten what i ordered