How much packaging is too much?
Upon returning home from work one evening I discovered the postman had left a note to indicate a parcel was awaiting collection at the local sorting office. Thinking this was my 'care package' (basically a shirt and a CD) from my dear Shelly I duly headed down to the sorting office to collect what I assumed was to be a small parcel.
This was not the case. One can only imagine my wonder as the postman hauled out a huge cardboard box. I therefore imagined that said parcel was crammed with all sorts of cool things.....well it was, sort of.....
This cavernous receptacle yielded 1 photo CD and 2 rather fetching (yet very neatly packed) t-shirts and about a half hundredweight* of bubble wrap and 'air parcels'. Why this small consignment needed all this packaging was a mystery to me as it wasn't particularly fragile and would have quite easily fit in a large padded envelope.
Maybe it's an American thing? I order contact lenses online and they usually arrive rattling about in a large box that would have easily accommodated enough contact lenses to last me a lifetime....
So my question remains...how much packaging is too much?
*may be a 'slight' exaggeration - not actually a half hundredweight.
1 comment:
You are exaggerating! It was not a huge package! And that was done because we Americans are suspect and do not trust that the CD would not have been broken had it been packed in an envelope. We didnt have a padded envelope at the office. So pooh on you!!!!
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