Are you fucking kidding me?!

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Least it’s all recycle-able I suppose but seriously?!

I've had the same recently. Ordered things from amazon and they come in boxes my children can fit inside. Doesn't help that our cardboard bin is the size of a small plastic toy box, yet the glass bin is double the size, mine is always empty because we have no glass to recycle.

I once ordered a spray mop from amazon, wasn't home when it was delivered but my 6ft dh sent me a picture of himself laying in the box it was delivered in

Ha that made me chuckle!

Amazon boxes have no resemblance to what's inside.
I saw on t.v. The foot pedal used for the paper

I thought it had been sent taped to the outside at first 😂 (forgive me I've got a new born and am sleep deprived!).

This gets my goat. Huge overpackacing, and so unnecessary.

The other day my DD2 had a similar delivery. It was a replacement controller for her Nintendo Switch as it had gone wrong during the guarantee period. The controllers are very small - just inches long and an inch or two wide. The box it arrived in filled my kitchen table. Some bubble wrap and a jiffy bag would surely have been sufficient.

We was baffled when we got this...honestly had no idea.

Bit shit really that it’s this massive box for a teeny umbrella.

Can’t even really use it again cos it won’t fit much in it.

I recently ordered 20 hangars off Amazon and got 20 litter pickers instead. That was very odd.

I recently had bird food delivered which was in a box that could easily have taken two bags. My cat was happy though - not only is it big enough for her to stretch out in but she can also sit fully upright in it as well.

Some companies are sending stuff that is boxed already with just an address and postage label.

I do wonder if it will increase 'missing' parcels and be counter productive but have received kitchen items just in their boxes a few times.

Zooplus used to send a small item in a huge box with a bit of paper and then have to refund because item was leaking or broken. Many people complained about their packaging, it was dire. Split bags of cat litter mixed in with burst gravy cat food in a huge box where it was loose and moving about and leaking from the box too.

Can’t even really use it again cos it won’t fit much in it.
This is Mumsnet. You must have a tall and lean child who will fit in that. hours of fun there

I understand that they chose the size of the box to fit best in the back of the van going from the warehouse to the depot.

I once heard that the man who founded Amazon said when starting out that the one thing they would never sell was mops because you can’t package them for posting.....

Also, in unrelated news Amazon are cunts.

The worst is when you order something as small as a single staple and it arrives in Gulliver-size box filled with enough bubble wrap to cover a commuter town.

There you have the arms or legs of a full on robot outfit...get your junk modelling hat on.

I once bought my Christmas stocking shopping online from Tesco and opted for it delivering. Everything arrived in their own individual boxes!!! Including Christmas cards which were on 3 for 2 and must have been together on the shelves, were put in 3 separate boxes!!! A cup in another, a smelly giftset in another, etc. I decanted everything into one box for storage and it was barely half full!!!

Lush are pretty bad for it which is amusing considering their vegan no waste save the planet stance. I ordered a couple of bath bombs last month and they came in a substantial box filled with hideous polystyrene bits that went everywhere .

Ha, I got exactly the same packaging on an umbrella I ordered a few weeks ago, when the delivery man handed it over I was desperately trying to remember what I'd ordered that size! When I said it must be my umbrella the delivery man though I meant one of those big ones for patios.

That’s weird about lush

Whenever I had ordered anything, it came packaged with popcorn

I vividly remember having to come home early one New Year’s Eve as my dog at the time had ripped open a bin bag to eat the soapy popcorn and was sick from it

Well you are lucky. John Lewis sent me a curtain pole with a fucking tarantula in it. Tarantula plopped out in car whilst driving to my new flat.
Had to remove from car with CD and the top of the tank of screenwash. Never seen a tarantula before. Did not realise.
Later on was bloody furious and complained . Apparently it was funny.

Although it looks horrible,if you leave a biggish cardboard box out in the rain,the box usually gets all kind of pappy,(my word) and then you can roll it up small and bin it.

I found this out when I ordered three bed pillows,and the delivery was left out in the rain,instead of my shed, which I usually specify. The pillows were in some plasticky wrapping,and then some bubble wrap,but the box was huge.

Fill it full of sweets for a Christmas present

Lush are pretty bad for it which is amusing considering their vegan no waste save the planet stance. I ordered a couple of bath bombs last month and they came in a substantial box filled with hideous polystyrene bits that went everywhere

Ah, but were they really polystyrene? They used to use something derived from potato starch, although it looked like polystyrene. DD
and I played with it for hours, making small animals, veg etc DD was 19 at the time

Our Actifry came with just a label stuck on the Actifry box... as a PP mentioned - I wonder how many high cost items will now 'go missing'...

Amazon are ridiculous with their packaging! The most mind boggling fuckery was a tiny bottle of rescue remedy drops in a box for a seven foot blind?!

This was my favourite. It was all that was in the box.