HP takes the Wasteful Packaging Cake
Posted 08/24/09 at 09:54:16 AM by Pulkit Chandna
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HP is way ahead of its competitors in the global PC market. The lack of competition – for the time being – has given HP ample time to concentrate on such trivial matters as product packaging.
An Australian resident was mighty surprised when a “10ft AC cord from HP for use with my power adaptor,” which he had ordered, arrived in a gargantuan package fixed to a wooden pallet. According to him, the entire package weighed around 22 pounds.
HP has experimented with prodigal packaging before. Last year, it raised the profligate packaging bar to unprecedented heights when it shipped 32 pages (A4 size) in an enormous box that held 16 smaller boxes – a dedicated box for a couple of papers.
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Entire team packs like little, bitty baby!
Submitted by Havok on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 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
makes me want to order
Submitted by Rob86 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 2:22pm
makes me want to order something small to see how it gets shipped to me :)
The box that my Aurora PC
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 10:50am
The box that my Aurora PC came in was so big, that we use it as a table now.
Yeah, It happens..
Submitted by JohnP on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 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.
[quote]shipped in a box
Submitted by Denis63 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 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
Submitted by gendoikari1 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 10:48am
The Canadian Forces can fit, because we don't have much in the way of battle tanks. Just APCs.
Someone at HP has a good sense of humor.
Submitted by BinaryMonkey on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 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.
Submitted by Point26 on Mon, 08/24/2009 - 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 :/
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