NSW
9207 posts
Methamphetamine has been removed and replaced with ...whatever that is.
WA
2562 posts
Bet it's got something to do with lithium batteries catching fire in transit.
WA
605 posts
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.
WA
23647 posts
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....
VIC
193 posts
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!
QLD
998 posts
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.
NSW
4521 posts
After all these years, I still can't believe someone thought it a good idea to call themselves 'RS Components'.
Careful Mark... you'll send this thread next door.
