Amazon parcel sizes

cheesefest · 4 Nov 2021 at 10:14

Just now I have received this from Amazon. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bobble-Car...25090&pd_rd_wg=BVA8B&pd_rd_i=B08G1JJTG1&psc=1 and it came in a shoe size box.

Amazon tag a box size by each product - remember seeing something on Amazon 2-3 years ago. So in my case, it says please use box E1 on its packaging system.

I thought Amazon were going to make it so use smaller packages. If use smaller packages, that means couriers can carry more packages etc.

My friend ordered a height chart for daughter's room. It was in a cardboard tube which was placed inside a massive box! Why couldn't they send it in the tube? I remember as a teen ordering posters from mail order and they were delivered in a cardboard tube.

What's your experiences with Amazon's over packaging?

Thekwango · 4 Nov 2021 at 10:28

i've found the same on occasion, small items packed into ridiculously oversized packaging. had a micro sd card arrive in a box i could have lived in when a padded envelope would have sufficed. but then recently had a headset arrive in literally just it's original box with a shipping label slapped on to it. sometimes seems there's no rhyme nor reason to their packaging.

tom_e · 4 Nov 2021 at 10:41

I remember getting a 32mm socket which is roughly the size of 2 matchboxes stuck together, it came in a box the size of 2 shoeboxes end to end rammed with packing paper. Made me laugh, you'd have to try pretty hard to damage it it would probably have been safe in a plastic bag with the label on.

Ryan-3 · 4 Nov 2021 at 10:42

I've had some soft roll-up protectors to go between pans delivered before and they delivered them flat in a box that could fit a TV. They're specifically designed so they fold at the edges of the packaging...

CREATIVE!11 · 4 Nov 2021 at 10:50

Yeah happened to me a lot.

It gets me pretty angry tbh. 1) fills up my recycling 2) it's a gargantuan waste.

DB_SamX · 4 Nov 2021 at 11:39

This massively bothers me too, so I started using Amazon (dedicated) day as a result if my order isn't urgent. At least it means they combine a few things in a single box once a week.

dlockers · 4 Nov 2021 at 11:40

Digging this up from the grave:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ff4o2/how_dell_ships_65_screws/

cheesefest · 4 Nov 2021 at 11:43

Do you think if you request the parcel to an Amazon locker that it will be in smaller packaging? As I ordered some heavy duty gloves to be delivered to AL and it was in the smallest locker https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blue-amazon-hub-locker-gm1269132503-372605650 (it was the one under order) and in a plastic bag. As I never had a massive box:tiny item with AL orders.

Semple · 4 Nov 2021 at 12:56

dLockers said:
Digging this up from the grave:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ff4o2/how_dell_ships_65_screws/

I feel his pain, i remember once putting together a storage array of about 240 HDD's, each HDD was delivered individually packaged.

builder22 · 4 Nov 2021 at 13:01

prob packed by robots, haven't got the AI fine tuned enough yet