Recieved an ultra slim keyboard in a box big enough for a microwave oven (packing material in comment)

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• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  Cats for scale.

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  • dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah your new cat box comes with a free keyboard.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It wasn’t exactly free, but yes 😁

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  • myotheraccount@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably confused why you bought packaged air, when your whole house is full of air already

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  • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ah, they had to check it out

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They probably ran out of the smaller size boxes. Rather than holding your package, the puller grabbed whatever was available that it would fit in.

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  • FlihpFlorp@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah I work at a pet store and one of hold duties was pack up boxes for UPS or FedEx, basically flip flopping from retail helping customers to packing

    Anyways sometimes we’d run low and have to pack a tiny bird toy into a box made for a 30lb bag of dog food

    Other times we had to sometimes tape 2 boxes together becuase the tall box (made for stuff like dog poop rake kits) was to narrow, and the wide boxes for aforementioned dog food was too short

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, Galaxus and Brack pull that regularly. At least they use those cardboard-paper things for filling.

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• hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s because of fancy algorithms and waste reduction, not laziness and capitalism. That’s what Jeff Bezos told me.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Always figured that was the case, no joke. Ever try to automate anything even slightly complex? Edge cases and weird shit crops up all the time. Maybe something in the product description triggered this ridiculous box.

    People doing the packing probably don’t have a path to get the occasional issue resolved, and likely don’t care.

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  • datavoid@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Going by their job interview questions it probably has something to do with optimally packing boxes in a truck

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• charizardcharz@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sometimes it's due to the battery shipping label that's required for lithium batteries. They need a box big enough to fit it as it's a fixed size and needs to fit on one side of the box.

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  • SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s only 5" square at most, though. You don’t need a microwave sized box for that.

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    • charizardcharz@piefed.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For some reason it didn't click how oversized the box is. More likely they ran out of smaller ones then, or some shitty algorithm said this was the "most economical" box.

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• Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Last week, my new wallet came in shoebox size box.

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• Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks good. What kind is that?

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This kind 😁

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    • Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Looks sweet. Do you have experience with this brand? I need a new keyboard

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nice. A Keychron

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• axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ain’t this kinda good tho? Use the extra cardboard for crafts and stuff or pass it down

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• HairyHarry@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIqqQCvA59A

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