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Im working as an it-professinal for a company and i witness so many crazy things worth sharing.
Yesterday i got a call from the front desk that a package has arrived and i should fetch it. After i picked it up i already wonderd why this damn huge box weighs next to nothing.
What followed is best described in picture:
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we ordered 2 new HP switches and that package contained only two boxes with a single letter each.
the letter itself didnt even contain the licence keys as we expected.. NO it was only a form to request the licence keys which you need to setup/activate the hardware.
im asking myself all the time, WHY. why do two envelopes with 2 piece of paper each need such an huge box? that was basicly a big box of air shipped to us....
but this isnt the only thing i encounter in therms of a big box of nothing:
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this is a plastic envelope which contains ONLY ONE SCREW. this thing is shipped with every DELL notebook and is to fasten the DVD drives.
sadly this screw isnt needed anymore since the latest notebook generation has it mounted by default.
those are only two examples how lavish companies use resources because its basicly more expensive stop packing the screw or use smaler boxes ...
sad world!
 
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How is it more expensive to use a smaller box?? you dont exactly explain
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Companies use what is available. If they bought every size possible to perfectly fit every piece they needed to ship, it would indeed be more expensive. On top of that, extra room for protection should always be accounted for.
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good question!
big producing companies streamline order and delivery processes as much as possible. after calcualting what quantity of which product sells/ships how often they determined what sizes could ship most products. their goal is simply to have less production lines needed to complete the whole process.
its cheaper for them to have e.g. only 2 different sizes - small/big - and throw everything which doesnt fit into the small one into big boxes than haveing 3 or more different packing lines to reduce wasted space and material
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the problem is that this mentality goes through all ranks.
in case of the HP box:
HP cant fit the letters into their small boxes -> next bigger size. also both orders are handeld seperatly in their system even if its for one costumer -> 2 boxes for 2 envelopes which would have fit into one.
the next company who does the shipping cant fit the small boxes into their "small" ones so next bigger one is picked.
now imagine an whole container on a ship which holds just 2 or more of those box in a boxed envelopes....
thats the point where you have to question if its really cheaper, as the delivering service (e.g. FedEX) could have fit other packages on their car (room and meterial wise) which in return leads to less cares needed to transport stuff = less gas .....
the spiral goes on and on 
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I should have realized that  Thanks!
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On May 26 2011 23:57 Azro wrote:now imagine an whole container on a ship which holds just 2 or more of those box in a boxed envelopes.... thats the point where you have to question if its really cheaper, as the delivering service (e.g. FedEX) could have fit other packages on their car (room and meterial wise) which in return leads to less cares needed to transport stuff = less gas ..... the spiral goes on and on
it's really is cheaper for the company itself, not for the world. firms only care about themselves. that was a pretty cool explanation you made btw.
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