Unusual Packing Methods & Materials Message #1 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 25 Sept 2005, 1:53 p.m.
When I got home from work on Friday, I noticed a large box (61.9 oz) of kellogg's Frosted Flakes sitting on the dining room table. I thought it very unusual since my wife and I don't eat cerials and wondered why my wife had bought it.
Turned out that a notepad computer I had bought on ebay had been shipped by UPS in the cerial box. The computer was surounded by styropone and stuffed into a cerial box for shipping. Forturnately the computer was okay.
This got me to wondering what unusual packaging others have received and used.
Here's a HP calculator packing story to start it off:
Last year I had bought an entire collection of 12 calculators. Since it included two HP-42S, a HP-71B, a HP-41CX , a HP-15C, and an assortment of other lesser valuable calculators, I was looking forward to them. When the box arrived, it obviously had a rough trip - one entire seam of the bos was torn open and the box was quite squished.
When I nervously opened the box, I found that each calculator had been placed in a plastic grocery bag and then the bag rolled up around the calculator. Then the shipper had padded the box out with hundreds of plastic grocery bags. No wonder the box was squished - it had no internal structural support. The good news was that all of the calculators were in good condition and nothing was harmed.
There was one other unusal part to this story. The top of the box was completely covered (with only the space for Ship to and ship from not covered) with individual Christmas Stamps. This was well after Christmas and someone had decided to use up their supply of Holiday stamps. It turns out that the local post office had done it - not the shipper. The person at the post office told me that ever so often they take a package and use up all their loose stamps they have cluttering up their desk drawers.
The top was so collorful that I cut it off and plan to frame it to hang on the wall. If anyone interested, I could post a photo of it.
What stories do you have?
Bill
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