Show us examples of packaging gone mad

[DickyC]

Christmas = Heartburn

Bought a box of these.



Inside the box was a small plastic bottle.



Inside the bottle were fourteen capsules.



Pound coin for scale.

5cc of pills in a 40cc bottle in a 365cc box.

Less than 2% of the volume of the packet was taken up by the capsules.

[miniman]

[colin79666]

Backup tape returned to work for a restore.

[Legmaster]

Surely Amazon will win this thread.

Here's 4 camping chairs, from one order, each in its own box, with each box big enough for all 4. That's a 3m tape fully extended for scale.

[xeny]

colin79666 said:

Backup tape returned to work for a restore.

Is that LTO 2??

[colin79666]

Surely nothing can beat HP.

“Yup, so that's 17 boxes in total to protect 32 pages. A world-class effort there from HP.”

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/18/hp_packag...

[colin79666]

xeny said:

Is that LTO 2??

Yep! Pic is about 6 years old mind. Do network based backups now!

[Jonesy23]

colin79666 said:

Backup tape returned to work for a restore.

On the upside that's pretty tricky to lose in transit compared to the tape.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I needed to buy one of those tiny wooden dolls. What a fking nightmare trying to get to the damn thing.

[HannsG]

Amazon anyone?

I physically have to make a trip to the skip to get rid of all the cardboard they sent through with the Xmas presents

Incredible waste