Does this mean they'll stop putting a box which says "Ready to Ship" inside another stupid cardboard box that's just sliiightly larger, just so they can show off their Amazon logo?
However, the package I received yesterday wouldn't have had these issues. The inner wasn't obviously something of steal-able value.
I hope whoever took it didn't check their mirrors and crashed.
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- listerine
- pepto bismol
- ibuprofen
- $20 azamax plant pesticide desperately needed while a houseplant was being destroyed by fungus gnats. Enough value I suppose but so random to steal.
- aquaphor (the tubes of stuff for dry lips)
- a box of pencils
I could honestly go on for much longer if I went through my purchase history. I live in a nice neighborhood in Boston and have a locked lobby where they drop off packages that I guess people tailgate into with high success. Or I suppose ringing the bell to a random apartment and saying "UPS" probably gets you buzzed in on most days.
“Ready to Ship” means that the pallet-unpack phase has concluded and no further unwrapping should occur. It does not mean “Safe to Ship” such that no further wrapping should occur. I wonder how the carriers are negotiating the minimum requirements for flat-drop versus corner-drop versus puncture-protection now that everyone’s trying to find ways to ship efficiently with less waste.
How much packaging waste is to permit shipping carriers to route packages with a 10% higher chance of “significant” collision, or with a 10% higher threshold for “significant” when measuring rate of collision? Both would be ways to fine-tune shipping costs without offering easy accountability to shippers or the public.