New record

[creese]

Got a parcel from Play today. Forget the small plastic toy inside was carefully packed in a tough plastic container and pretty unbreakable itself. The cardboard box it came in was 6, yes six, times the size of the toy package.

[sonofsanta]

Dell have beaten that before. We once ordered a new roller grip for a printer - just a little rubber ring that picks the paper up from the tray - and that came in a padded bag, inside a box, inside a larger box. This was literally a piece of rubber the size of a 5p (which is hardly going to break anyway, being made of rubber) and it arrived in an A4 sized box about 6 inches deep. That's overkill!

[creese]

That's overkill!

 

Right... now I've got this going through my head...

 

MEN AT WORK - OVERKILL LYRICS

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ45xrtNnzk

Edited July 26, 2011 by creese

[featured_spectre]

Best I ever had was 1 canon ink cartridge coming in a box worthy of a set of 5 toners!

[Guest Guest]

Got a stick of ram before from Dell which came in a box big enough to hold a printer!

 

This is why I don't agree with the way recycling is implemented - how exactly are we, the customer, to blame for excess packaging?

[laserblazer]

I've got a black vinyl disk with a hole in the middle - is this a record?

[localzuk]

Ah, packaging is always fun. I once received an envelope with license details in it packaged inside a box that was a good 12" tall, 2ft wide and 12" deep - one of those ones with plastic built into the box inside.

 

So, the environmental impact of those licenses was pretty huge.

[joe90bass]

I've got a black vinyl disk with a hole in the middle - is this a record?

LP, 12" or 7"?

[creese]

I've got a black vinyl disk with a hole in the middle - is this a record?

 

Looking up Vinyl disks (as I'm too young to remember them ) I found this:

 

Do hard disks work like old vinyl records and use needles to record? - Computeractive - PC help