Not what I'd anticipated. I'm sure an envelope would've been adequate... It's only one button battery.

Methamphetamine has been removed and replaced with ...whatever that is.

Bet it's got something to do with lithium batteries catching fire in transit.

You bought a battery from RS?

Surely that would be an expensive battery, so maybe they make the box bigger to feel you got your money's worth ;-)

It could be a bigger box for the fork lift tines to have something to spear into.

We get this at work as the suppliers like OfficeMax obviously have a contract with a packing/postage mob or something. We ordered AA batteries, I thought it was a box of 20 so ordered 20, but no it's a box of 24 so they crack it open, take 4 out and then send it in a massive box of peanuts like the above pic.
Two pens in a box like that above also.

When you multiply that over all Govt agencies, surely it bloody expensive. Such waste. It is just easier to give us petty cash again and let us but a damn pen at the shop.
But no, somebody got a promotion of suggesting a 'better way' and all the supply contracts would be corrupt as blazes - it can't possibly be cheaper.
Then after all the wasted boxes and god knows what else, everybody else needs to be less wasteful apparently, due to global warming etc....

Careful Mark... you'll send this thread next door.

At least it was the dissolvable peanuts not the polystyrene one we get from some of our suppliers.
PIA when there is a static charge, they stick to everything!

Marks right. It just proves they make a motza on shipping costs.

So what does the item cost and how much for shipping.

The way to stop this is only buy free shipping. They package it enough to not be doa but also as cheap as possible.

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slammin said..
Marks right. It just proves they make a motza on shipping costs.

So what does the item cost and how much for shipping.

The way to stop this is only buy free shipping. They package it enough to not be doa but also as cheap as possible.

It was free shipping. And only $3.76. Cheaper than picking up from battery world no doubt.

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GavGav said..
At least it was the dissolvable peanuts not the polystyrene one we get from some of our suppliers.

and they are yummy

After all these years, I still can't believe someone thought it a good idea to call themselves 'RS Components'.

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Harrow said..
After all these years, I still can't believe someone thought it a good idea to call themselves 'RS Components'.

I think you probably know they are/were Radio Spares....