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What with all this pandemic business, plenty of us are now doing more online shopping.
What never ceases to amaze is how small an item a (bike) retailer can squeeze into a box you could comfortably house a pet in, so let’s see your best examples...
My submissions:
https://flic.kr/p/2kJamck
What’s in the box?
Nope. Top cap.
Two bearings? Clearly that’s a job for a shoebox...
What ya got? Doesn’t have to be a bike retailer...
Must....not....make euphemistic joke.....in response to title.
I ordered some lenses from Oakley for my Flak Jackets last week. Two pairs of lenses.
Came in a box 50cm x 50cm x 10cm.
A few years back I had an army surplus gore tex jacket and trousers delivered in a box that was large enough for K to get inside and close the lid.
I once ordered a Dell tablet and keyboard from Amazon. First I got an email saying, "The tablet you ordered is out of stock but the keyboard is in stock, would you like us to send that separately." Eventually, the tablet turned up. It was in the normal sized box you would expect for something that size, but that box was put into another box also marked "Dell" that was big enough to house about 20 of the smaller box. I guess the first box that the warehouse staff found was the big box that Dell used to pack a shipment of tablets.
Nike have gone the other way and put a shoe box into the smallest box it would fit.
I give you, a single Nike sweatband from Amazon that would literally have fitted in a small envelope:
(foot for scale)
Had photos of this handy because a mate of mine is middle-management at Amazon and I needed to forward it to him!
I ordered the Topeak Pressure-Rite adapter for my shock pump fro Wiggle. The unit itself is about an inch long and about a half inch wide. That came in a plastic package that was about half the size of an A5 envelope...which was packed in an A3-sized plastic envelope. The Packaging address sticker was bigger than the actual product and suspect the envelop size was used to ensure the address sticker fitted, but a ridiculous size-to-product ratio there - not as bad as the boxes above though.
I’m convinced this is why staples got in trouble. Spent all the money on boxes the Walton family could comfortably live in and then posted you a single biro in them.
CRC once seent me Marzocchi fork air valves X2.
In a box about 70cm along all three sides....
at least Amazon have stopped putting things already in big cuboid cardboard boxes, into other slightly bigger boxes 🤣Nike have gone the other way and put a shoe box into the smallest box it would fit.
had some real shockers from Amazon in the past, don't mind though as I can re-use the bigger boxes at work, it's the piddly small ones that are annoying!
As the OP. Shoe box sized box for a derailleur hanger. They actually had to pad the ****er out with those airbag things to stop it rattling about.
Mad. The world's gone mad, I tell you...
I can't remember exactly what this was but it was something like a bike pump or a gas strut for the car bonnet.
