Parcel madness

[L Austin France]

All this

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To send this

[Blaze]

Ah, I had exactly the same thing from Amazon on Saturday - great big box, loads of packaging for a couple of very small items. I don't mind th paper packaging as we use it for fire-lighting, but the cardboard box goes straight to the recycling bin.
It may well be something to do with postage cost.

[ajm]

It's a difficult line to tread. If your articles had less packaging and came damaged?

[L Austin France]

It's a difficult line to tread. If your articles had less packaging and came damaged?

There's silly & downright stupid.
The two little boxes contained bubble packed dog pills, so that's pills in bubble wrap in their own boxes in large box with yards of packing paper.
It would be hard to damage the pills in an ordinary envelope.

[exile]

Yes but the oik picking in the warehouse doesn't know whether the item at A54/195C is a box of bubble wrapped dog medication or a delicate Meissen vase. I exaggerate of course.

These firms are also limited - by their own structures - in the number of packaging sizes they keep in stock. So they don't have a range of boxes going up in size in 2cm increments - more likely 10cm increments or more. And if they stock out of one size of box, then they have to go up to the next size. Now of course they shouldn't stock out but there is currently a significant shortage of cardboard packaging and if SCA or Smurfitt Kappa are late in delivering, then stockouts can happen with little recourse for Amazon because the other supplier will be as bad if not worse.

[L Austin France]

Yes but the oik picking in the warehouse doesn't know whether the item at A54/195C is a box of bubble wrapped dog medication or a delicate Meissen vase. I exaggerate of course.

These firms are also limited - by their own structures - in the number of packaging sizes they keep in stock. So they don't have a range of boxes going up in size in 2cm increments - more likely 10cm increments or more. And if they stock out of one size of box, then they have to go up to the next size. Now of course they shouldn't stock out but there is currently a significant shortage of cardboard packaging and if SCA or Smurfitt Kappa are late in delivering, then stockouts can happen with little recourse for Amazon because the other supplier will be as bad if not worse.

"These firms" ? You obviously include generalisation as well as exaggeration in the repertoire of sophistry you seem to specialise in.
This is from a company specialising in animal products so the oik, as you so charmingly describe him/her, should presumably have some product knowledge & at least be able to recognise a box of pills when he/she sees them.
Whatever happened to those padded envelopes I occasionally receive electronic guitar parts in?

[exile]

LAF
you demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge of how modern warehouse logistics works. The warehouse operators are frankly not the sharpest pencils in the box. I have in my career personally come across 3 individuals who had extreme difficulty with literacy/numeracy. If you think they should have first year vets university experience as a minimum - think again.

These people will be on minimum wage. They are told to go a to a warehouse location and select a specific number of items. Most likely they will not know - let alone care - whether the box they select is a medication or a scratching pad or bedding or more - see below.

You have bought from an animal products company. You seem to think that they have a warehouse just through the door from the person taking your order. The most likely position is that they do not run their own warehousing. Warehousing is sub-contracted to professional companies. Contract warehousing is let out to all and sundry - within legal constraints.

I frequently buy from Zooplus. Most (possibly all since I have never monitored it) are despatched by Rhenus logistics. The company has a 7 billion € turnover. Zooplus had a turnover of about 20% of that.

Are you getting the picture yet?

No?

Well let me say that in the past as a petrochemical logistics manager, I have used Rhenus warehousing.

So your doggie tablets might just be sitting in the stock location immediately over a pallet load of plastic pellets and just under a pallet of boxed Chinese teapots.


That is what modern warehousing is like.

[exile]

LAF as an after thought, if you still have the packaging, have a look at the label on the box. It could well have the dispatch location as well as the address of the company you have bought from.

[A.N.Other]

I watched a documentary about Amazon and apparently the system tells the packers which box to select so a bug in the software or perhaps they briefly ran out of more appropriate boxes!

I've had the same myself, a box you could use to bury big dog with a tiny virtually indestructable item inside.

[L Austin France]

LAF
you demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge of how modern warehouse logistics works. The warehouse operators are frankly not the sharpest pencils in the box. I have in my career personally come across 3 individuals who had extreme difficulty with literacy/numeracy. If you think they should have first year vets university experience as a minimum - think again.

These people will be on minimum wage. They are told to go a to a warehouse location and select a specific number of items. Most likely they will not know - let alone care - whether the box they select is a medication or a scratching pad or bedding or more - see below.

You have bought from an animal products company. You seem to think that they have a warehouse just through the door from the person taking your order. The most likely position is that they do not run their own warehousing. Warehousing is sub-contracted to professional companies. Contract warehousing is let out to all and sundry - within legal constraints.

I frequently buy from Zooplus. Most (possibly all since I have never monitored it) are despatched by Rhenus logistics. The company has a 7 billion € turnover. Zooplus had a turnover of about 20% of that.

Are you getting the picture yet?

No?

Well let me say that in the past as a petrochemical logistics manager, I have used Rhenus warehousing.

So your doggie tablets might just be sitting in the stock location immediately over a pallet load of plastic pellets and just under a pallet of boxed Chinese teapots.


That is what modern warehousing is like.

You seem to think you know an awfull lot about what I know & think when you really know JS about me. Your post is full of superfluous supposition. (see coloured parts if you're not sure which)
Your MO seems to be that you will use all sorts of BS facts in order to belittle folk & show how clever you think you are. Sophistry at its finest.
"Are you getting the picture yet?
No?"
is downright bloody rude, is evidence of just how far up your own arse you are & says more about you than any words I could print.
I started this post in a light hearted manner as I was surprised just how little space my two little boxes of pills took up in a large carton & that's all.