I don't know about you guys, but I sometimes get some pretty questionable packing from Amazon, but this far exceeds anything I've ever encountered. Youtuber Ottar Gilason works for a camera store and the amount of packaging DHL included on an order for a single camera battery charger is downright hilarious.
I think I'm enjoying the giant pallet more than anything else. Anyone have similar shipping stories? Let us know in the comments below.
Maybe not as extreme ratio wise, but I had a similar situation when I ordered my tripod, the box was nearly 4x the size it needed to be. Pure daft really!
what was the shipping cost ? that is crazy. they could have shipped that for 5 bucks.
I've ordered a few things from overseas which have arrived via DHL - in my cases, everything has arrived in a nearly impenetrable cocoon of DHL tape, with multiple (non-corrugated, I should add) boxes taped heavily together to resemble Tetris bricks. For those who don't know, DHL ceased their operations in the United States in 2009 except for incoming shipments from other countries they service; during this time, they had a contract with UPS to fill in the gaps of service. I suspect their packaging has more to do with the shipper than the courier, although DHL seems to be notorious for antics like this and the one I described.
LMAO! China = tape, cardboard or some form thereof, more tape. more cardboard. Sits for many many days somewhere. Customs, more tape. Sits many more days somewhere. Gets lost. Gets found. Gets rerouted, Sits for more days. 45 to 60 days later it shows up with the wrong item.
This happens alot with Staples and Amazon orders. Not as crazy as the video but you would think they would invest in smaller boxes.
Rofl! I was just thinking about this! Also they like to put protective packing around items that are obviously not perishable- I have gotten book in a ton of bubble wrap.
I've had this happen with a few orders from amazon but never this bad
When I was in college, I worked for Ritz Camera. They replenished stock based on your sales the prior week, and the warehouse was divided into different sections that were packed separately. So, you'd get a lot of half empty boxes. The one that took the cake was a box the size of a paper box, full to the rim with those plastic air pocket things, and at the bottom was... a single lens cover. The lens cover retailed for about $7 and I'm positive shipping alone was more than that. No wonder they had to close all their stores.
No wonder the shipping costs are so huge.
Not a DHL thing, thats how Nikon package items! I work in a camera shop and we've had a box the same size as that sent for a lens cap! Nikon's next packaging system is very wasteful