We bought a gravy boat. It came in a small box, and inside the box was sort of cut out to hold it in place. Fine.
This small box was wrapped in about 36ft of bubble wrap (I am guessing but am not exaggerating - was in 2 sheets and I think both were about 3x my height) and then put into another huge reinforced cardnoard box that was nailed shut - so I had to maul it with scissors to get it open, then unravel all the bubble wrap.
Now obviously I'd have been annoyed if the thing had been damaged in transit, but was there any need for that much packaging??
That said, I won't be buying bubble wrap for a fair while. In fact I may start my own small business selling lengths of it :)
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SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood · 08/11/2012 13:31
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SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood ·
08/11/2012 15:32
Oh and they used their common sense in packing the two? Now I'd like that. But no, DH never has and never would buy something as mundane as bubble wrap. He saves his efforts for glamorous, high profile items such as gravy boats.
gravy boat was/.....mmmm...no idea invoice doesn't have a price 
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ChippingInLovesAutumn ·
08/11/2012 15:33
Oh - then maybe you should put it on a very high shelf 
ChippingInLovesAutumn ·
08/11/2012 15:34
Oh - it didn't even occur to me to take it 'like that'...
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