Havok

August 24, 2009 at 5:20pm

 At work we recieved an entire pallet of Hp products, all 8 of them, in 8 huge 2x2x3 boxes. All we ordered was 8 packs of ink!?

 

 

OMGWTFBBQ

Rob86

August 24, 2009 at 2:22pm

makes me want to order something small to see how it gets shipped to me :)

gendoikari1

August 24, 2009 at 10:50am

The box that my Aurora PC came in was so big, that we use it as a table now.

JohnP

August 24, 2009 at 10:48am

 Worked for HP for 25 years. What happens is that an order goes out to the gigantic warehouse in CA and a couple of places overseas. Robots pull the item off the shelf in WHATEVER box they are in. The shipping guys just seal the box and put a shipping label on it. The order is NEVER checked by a human as that would add to the cost. It is the responsibility of the equipent that pack the shelves to get the boxes out of the original shipping containers. So the fault lies with putting the boxes on the shelf, not the folks shipping the box out. You cannot believe how much product goes through these warehouses so the automation is essential.

  I must have recieved several thousand boxes in my time there but only a couple were this overpacked.

 

 

Denis63

August 24, 2009 at 10:07am

[quote]shipped in a box sturdy enough to ship the entire Canadian army[/quote]

i laughed soo hard when i read that! our army is small, but we're damned good at search and rescue!!

 

       -Denis

BinaryMonkey

August 24, 2009 at 8:05am

That is hilarious. It just shows that someone in the shipping department has fun at work and has a sense of humor. It's just too bad the receiver of the package didn't.

Point26

August 24, 2009 at 7:38am

It seems like Paul Harvy needs to do a piece on this, cause it makes no sense. I just recently ordered a new laptop from HP's website. After it was built and shipped from China, it arrived in 3 days! The box it came in was appropriately sized, but it would have been cool if it came on a pallet :/