Topic: Packaging!!

[dummkauf]

How much packaging would you think would be required to ship 1 spark plug???  I'd think not much but what do I know.  I decided to give those spiffy iridium spark plugs a shot in my thumper, so I ordered a whopping 1 spark plug and this is what it showed up in:





$12.00 later, including shipping and here it is!


Just gotta make room for the catalog don't they 

[333]

Judging from the crunched box, it might not have been big enough.

[CBJoe]

I worked at a medium duty GM dealer. I ordered an ABS sensor for a truck. It came in a box 6ft long, by 4" square.

I've worked on lab equipment for the last 9 years and it seems that all equipment manufactueres (the Japanese, Germans, Swiss, US, etc...) follow the same rule:

If it's cheap, plastic, and not easily damaged ship it in a box 10 times too large.  But if it's sensitive, calibrated, heavy, and extremely expensive, ship it in a box barely big enough for the part with no padding other than the packing list.

Joe

   

[kirkn]

Geez, good thing you didn't order a couple spares...  They'd have had to deliver in on a special trailer!   

[dummkauf]

Well the entire order with shipping cost me about $11.00

By the time you calculate the cost of the box, catalog in the box, spark plug, the extra marekting fliers, the plastic air filled bags, and the poor guy that had to pack it up, I'm pretty sure they lost money on this order.

[Bob Wessner]

Have you considered contacting The Guinness Book of Records?

[dummkauf]

I thought about it til weird beard mentioned the box his sensor came in

[Gordon]

Just be thankful it wasn't hidden in that huge box full of styrofoam peanuts!

[fuzzybutt]

I thought about it til weird beard mentioned the box his sensor came in

the day time DJ at our local classic rock station calls himself weird beard.

[tortelvis]

I worked at a medium duty GM dealer. I ordered an ABS sensor for a truck. It came in a box 6ft long, by 4" square.

I've worked on lab equipment for the last 9 years and it seems that all equipment manufactueres (the Japanese, Germans, Swiss, US, etc...) follow the same rule:

If it's cheap, plastic, and not easily damaged ship it in a box 10 times too large.  But if it's sensitive, calibrated, heavy, and extremely expensive, ship it in a box barely big enough for the part with no padding other than the packing list.

Joe

   

Amen! I work in bike parts and regularly see stuff come in like that. We will get a $5 stop light switch in a 3 foot square box full of packing and then a $900 crank in a box that is bulging at the seams!