@Dizavid I’m confused, the contents (granted I can only see the knife) don’t look overly beat up, is there something you’re not showing us? If not, it would appear that the packaging was plenty effective at protecting the contents.
As I recall this also came with an aluminum bowl and spoon that would have very easily been dented or warped in a bubble mailer. While I grant that you do appear to have received an oversized box for some reason (warehouse ran out of smaller boxes perhaps?) I really don’t think a bubble mailer would have done the trick. Mine arrived safely in a 9x6x6 box without a single bag of Texas Air so I’m sure they had their reasons.
As a side note… my camping knife came loose, not packaged, I wonder if we even got the same knife. O_o
@jbartus There was nothing inside but air and the knife. Nothing was really damaged, but I could easily see the knife’s packaging taking a beating in that setup.
@Dizavid So in other words nothing happened but you thought maybe it might in some alternate scenario so you decided to judge and complain without any empirical evidence to back it up? I mean really… it’s a plastic knife.
Also, where is the rest of your camping stuff? Was this not the 6-piece bundle?
@Pavlov
My favorite first-world problem is that I am always angry about the amount of “spare, wasted air” Amazon uses in its packaging.
Do they think that air is free or something? WTF?
And only sometimes do they send me a package containing proper Texas Air. Far to often, I get shitty air from someplace else. And this inferior air can damage the items in my order.
I have called to demand Texas Air in all my Prime shipments. They offer excuses. More proof that Amazon Fulfillment Centers are just covers for zombie activity cells.
Think that’s bad? One time I bought a Dell laptop that was missing one of the 8 or so rubber feet. Dell sent me a new one. A tiny piece of molded rubber. Virtually indestructible to any form of physical shock. Inside a 2ft x 2ft x 1ft box. With padding.
I was so confused, and then convinced that someone at the shipping dept was trying to prove something.
Shipping is one of those things that seems to be an “art” that is not always well practiced. I recently received a box with a sand filter for my pool. The entire box was 2.5x2.5x4 feet, (think small fridge) which it needs to be to hold the biggest part of the filter, but the small parts were just loose in the package, so consequently A] one screw was totally missing due to having fallen out of the flaps at the bottom of the box, or maybe out one of the several small punctures in the side, and B] the 2inch x2.5 inch x 4 inch box with the screw-in pressure gauge contained a gauge with a shattered plastic front, and the needle for the gauge was broken off and laying in the bottom of the gauge. When I contacted them about getting a new gauge (I was willing to reuse the stainless steel screw from the old filter) they had a Fedex order placed for the entire package to be picked up, on a Saturday, and then sent me a new filter (with just as crappy a packing job on the loose parts) a few days after they got it back at the warehouse. The total cost of the gauge was most likely less than $25 retail but I am sure the shipping cost to return and reship this item was WAAAAY more than that.
I believe the packing job is probably fine when you are shipping pallet-loads/container loads of the product to a warehouse some place, knowing it won’t get tipped sideways etc, but once it enters the Fedex/UPS/USPS etc shipping stream that is totally wishful thinking, and all bets are off. TL:DR: yeah, it’s a first world problem, but it translates to higher eventual costs, more pollution, more global warming, more traffic congestion etc.
@chienfou
A nephew and his GF both worked in an Amazon Fullfillment Center for more than a year apiece. The rough expectation was that all employees would forgo sleep for the duration on their employment, except during days off, weekends, and vacations.
This policy might have an effect on the intelligence that goes into packaging choices.
@chienfou Try this for art: When my wife moved here from England the shipping company required that their guy pack the boxes “for insurance reasons”. When said boxes arrived in the US 6-8 weeks later, we found their trained expert had used her long stemmed glassware as the cushioning layer for her books. Total destruction, as you can imagine.
There was also a fair amount of carnage in every single one of the crates, including a lot of (poorly packed) china.
Their insurance eventually did pay up, but we’d have been far better off packing it ourselves and forfeiting the insurance.
I cannot believe that you guys are all missing the obvious explanation: something got out of the box during shipping. It might still be in the house. Be careful.
If I had ordered a knife, and they had someone with a really good arm working in shipping, they might just throw it this way?
Perhaps not. Living beings are nearby, even great arms have off-days.
I am totally going to have your back on this. That is quite funny, and packaging alarming at the same time.
Got mine a couple days ago - I was expecting a Tyvek envelope also . . . the box seemed like overkill.
@Pavlov
/image twi’lek envelope
@medz Um . . . thank you!
@medz “hey, girl!”
@medz “Why yes! I AM looking for a good time!”
@medz Looks like that packaging fits just right.
@0Wise1 That’s just
/giphy girl-ish
Mine arrived promptly and in great condition. Thanks, meh.
I would’ve taken the box for my bubba’s
@Dizavid I’m confused, the contents (granted I can only see the knife) don’t look overly beat up, is there something you’re not showing us? If not, it would appear that the packaging was plenty effective at protecting the contents.
As I recall this also came with an aluminum bowl and spoon that would have very easily been dented or warped in a bubble mailer. While I grant that you do appear to have received an oversized box for some reason (warehouse ran out of smaller boxes perhaps?) I really don’t think a bubble mailer would have done the trick. Mine arrived safely in a 9x6x6 box without a single bag of Texas Air so I’m sure they had their reasons.
As a side note… my camping knife came loose, not packaged, I wonder if we even got the same knife. O_o
@jbartus There was nothing inside but air and the knife. Nothing was really damaged, but I could easily see the knife’s packaging taking a beating in that setup.
@Dizavid So in other words nothing happened but you thought maybe it might in some alternate scenario so you decided to judge and complain without any empirical evidence to back it up? I mean really… it’s a plastic knife.
Also, where is the rest of your camping stuff? Was this not the 6-piece bundle?
@jbartus No - it was the camo knife . . . There’s noting to really break, it was just a huge waste of cubic inches.
@Pavlov
My favorite first-world problem is that I am always angry about the amount of “spare, wasted air” Amazon uses in its packaging.
Do they think that air is free or something? WTF?
And only sometimes do they send me a package containing proper Texas Air. Far to often, I get shitty air from someplace else. And this inferior air can damage the items in my order.
I have called to demand Texas Air in all my Prime shipments. They offer excuses. More proof that Amazon Fulfillment Centers are just covers for zombie activity cells.
/giphy wasted air
What if I told you that meh buys boxes in bulk and it is cheaper than buying a batch of padded envelopes?
/giphy morpheus
@0Wise1 damn. This gif makes me happy.
@RiotDemon
Happiness
/giphy warm gun
@f00l definitely not what I expected.
@RiotDemon
Nothing personal. Just in a Lennon mood and could not resist.
/giphy Lennon and Marx Brothers
@f00l I meant the actual gif that loaded compared to what you typed. Random is good.
/giphy random
@RiotDemon
Perhaps not completely random
You must not shop at amazon often
@thismyusername I was going to say this, but you already did.
Think that’s bad? One time I bought a Dell laptop that was missing one of the 8 or so rubber feet. Dell sent me a new one. A tiny piece of molded rubber. Virtually indestructible to any form of physical shock. Inside a 2ft x 2ft x 1ft box. With padding.
I was so confused, and then convinced that someone at the shipping dept was trying to prove something.
Have you seen some of the world champions?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/29/aboxalypse_now/
If it didn’t come on a pallet, you should feel cheated.
@blaineg
Omg. Thx for blowing out my eyeballs.
This Is Worth Clicking-Thru, but for those who won’t, HP and Dell are the heavyweights. Here was the current record holder as of July 29, 2009:
HP shipped a PS2 mouse on a pallet.
Shipping is one of those things that seems to be an “art” that is not always well practiced. I recently received a box with a sand filter for my pool. The entire box was 2.5x2.5x4 feet, (think small fridge) which it needs to be to hold the biggest part of the filter, but the small parts were just loose in the package, so consequently A] one screw was totally missing due to having fallen out of the flaps at the bottom of the box, or maybe out one of the several small punctures in the side, and B] the 2inch x2.5 inch x 4 inch box with the screw-in pressure gauge contained a gauge with a shattered plastic front, and the needle for the gauge was broken off and laying in the bottom of the gauge. When I contacted them about getting a new gauge (I was willing to reuse the stainless steel screw from the old filter) they had a Fedex order placed for the entire package to be picked up, on a Saturday, and then sent me a new filter (with just as crappy a packing job on the loose parts) a few days after they got it back at the warehouse. The total cost of the gauge was most likely less than $25 retail but I am sure the shipping cost to return and reship this item was WAAAAY more than that.
I believe the packing job is probably fine when you are shipping pallet-loads/container loads of the product to a warehouse some place, knowing it won’t get tipped sideways etc, but once it enters the Fedex/UPS/USPS etc shipping stream that is totally wishful thinking, and all bets are off.
TL:DR: yeah, it’s a first world problem, but it translates to higher eventual costs, more pollution, more global warming, more traffic congestion etc.
@chienfou
A nephew and his GF both worked in an Amazon Fullfillment Center for more than a year apiece. The rough expectation was that all employees would forgo sleep for the duration on their employment, except during days off, weekends, and vacations.
This policy might have an effect on the intelligence that goes into packaging choices.
@f00l OWW!
@chienfou Try this for art: When my wife moved here from England the shipping company required that their guy pack the boxes “for insurance reasons”. When said boxes arrived in the US 6-8 weeks later, we found their trained expert had used her long stemmed glassware as the cushioning layer for her books. Total destruction, as you can imagine.
There was also a fair amount of carnage in every single one of the crates, including a lot of (poorly packed) china.
Their insurance eventually did pay up, but we’d have been far better off packing it ourselves and forfeiting the insurance.
By way of contrast, I got my Soundbot speaker (a not tiny thing) in a bubble mailer, shipped Priority Mail. I thought it was strange.
I cannot believe that you guys are all missing the obvious explanation: something got out of the box during shipping. It might still be in the house. Be careful.
I think that knife was supposed to ship in the envelope my bubba mugs came in
@PenguinOnTheRox
If I had ordered a knife, and they had someone with a really good arm working in shipping, they might just throw it this way?
Perhaps not. Living beings are nearby, even great arms have off-days.