Amazon Are Out of Small Boxes Again

I had a large garden rake delivered in a box ... :rolleyes:
 
I once had a dog collar delivered in a box 50% bigger than this one. :facepalm:
 
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These people just get worse. I would make this sort of thing an 'instant dismissal' offence if they were my employee:

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They don't pick the box themselves, so you'd have to sack who ever does the system.
 
Had an item(with its own thick outer carton) turn up in an Amazon branded brown paper bag last week.
 
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My local motor factors delivers that tape, box free, and possibly cheaper, yours might too.
 
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I got sick of all the large boxes (and miles of packing paper inside) from Amazon. Spent ages cutting the damned things up to get them in my recycling bin. Upshot is that I no longer bother with conventional cardboard recycling. I burn them and recycle them into the sky !!!! That also solves another problem ......... having to search for and retrieve my wheelie because the bin men cannot be arsed bringing it back to where it came from.
 
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Just got a gift from a grateful client. DPD delivered a box that comes up to my waist. I was quite excited but suspicious at how light is was.

In the end I was delighted - a bottle of prosecco is always welcome and I was running out of bubble wrap.....
 
I posted a photo of a pair of knitting needles in a large box a couple of months ago. My wife still gets items like this ,for stitching,too in over-sized boxes. The items are laid diagonally. I can only assume it's not cost-effective to stock long, thin boxes for such items.
 
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arclight said:
I got sick of all the large boxes (and miles of packing paper inside) from Amazon. Spent ages cutting the damned things up to get them in my recycling bin. Upshot is that I no longer bother with conventional cardboard recycling. I burn them and recycle them into the sky !!!! That also solves another problem ......... having to search for and retrieve my wheelie because the bin men cannot be arsed bringing it back to where it came from.
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I tried to find out if a reason for their haste, which causes several issues, is because they are running to a tight time schedule imposed on them. Issues are,as experienced by you,Doug, leaving a bin outside a neighbour's home but also in the middle of the footpath, not picking up any items that fall out en-route to the tipping machinery at the rear of the lorry. Failing to empty the green recycle box because some people have, maybe, accidently, put a glass bottle in it. We have to put glass in a separate green box. Re what becomes litter happens with the green recycle box mainly. Paper,cardboard,plastic bottles thin cardboard food wrappers and tins. I don't like to see litter so I make it my business to pick up these items, Obviously, high winds days are particularly bad for this. I've complained to the company..Amy..about the way they leave the wheelie bin,especially, in the middle of the footpath with no consideration for the blind, poorly sighted and those using wheelchairs. Even moms with push chairs. I did say that I appreciate that in some locations it's unavoidable but we have a metre-wide grass verge between the pavement and the road where residents place their bins. I wonder about a tight schedule because I saw a bin man..or should that be a refuse collection officer.? .:) empty our wheelie bin several metres from where it was collected from the verge and run back with it until within rolling distance and gave it a mighty push before legging it back to the lorry. The bin did quite well and travelled a few metres leaning back on its wheels before falling to the ground.

I have some reservation about moaning because they do a good job,a vital job, a dirty,smelly job too and in all weathers and they start early. Our wheelie bin is often emptied at 7.30am.

I came across this https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/1248748/refuse-collections-hunt-the-wheelie-bin-every-week

This is a good read too .It gave me a laugh.....sort of. I see one contributor tells of making sure the wheelie bin is facing the right way. We've had a notification about this. The handles must be to the side..ie..not facing the house or the road. Not many of the residents in our road do that. https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/bin-men-petty-21-reactions-9545204
 
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Amy..about the way they leave the wheelie bin,especially, in the middle of the footpath with no consideration for the blind, poorly sighted and those using wheelchairs. Even moms with push chairs.
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I've posted this before elsewhere on the forum, but can't find it. This is what I face (I use a wheelchair) if I dare venture out on a Friday (street after street are like this and impossible to pass):

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I have lost count with the amount of arguments I've had with selfish, inconsiderate bin men. They just don't give a toss! :mad:
 
Ah..yes.I do recall your photo,Trevor. I suppose it's back to the time- constraints issue. Placing a wheelie bin back on a drive puts time pressure on them but just inside the drive would be fine ..,wherever possible, to keep the pavements free. I can well imagine bin collection day is a day at home for those,like yourself or more to the point a 'not being able to go out' day. Very bad.

This article is dated 2018. It's clearly a huge problem. I see someone suggested that an employee follows the refuse lorry placing emptied bins inside driveways. You can see what will happen then. Residents will complain that when they arrive home in their car they have to get out and move the bin to get on their drive. I don't know how it can be solved tbh.

www.cambridge-news.co.uk

Bin wars: Blame game over who left the bins out

Cambridge City Council has faced a barrage of criticism over plans to show residents the red card if they leave bins out
www.cambridge-news.co.uk www.cambridge-news.co.uk
 
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JohnC6 said:
I posted a photo of a pair of knitting needles in a large box a couple of months ago. My wife still gets items like this ,for stitching,too in over-sized boxes. The items are laid diagonally. I can only assume it's not cost-effective to stock long, thin boxes for such items.
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It may also be to do with dimensions of boxes for shipping. Many carriers (eg RM) set prices according to maximum length, width and height, I remember a maths puzzle from school asking how you get a 5 foot pole onto a bus that only allows objects up to 4 feet long :)
 
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It may also be to do with dimensions of boxes for shipping. Many carriers (eg RM) set prices according to maximum length, width and height, I remember a maths puzzle from school asking how you get a 5 foot pole onto a bus that only allows objects up to 4 feet long :)
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Ah, Pythagoras 'rules' eh!
 
IKEA delivered 8 AA batteries in a box the size of a microwave . Ridiculous!!
 
JonathanRyan said:
It may also be to do with dimensions of boxes for shipping. Many carriers (eg RM) set prices according to maximum length, width and height, I remember a maths puzzle from school asking how you get a 5 foot pole onto a bus that only allows objects up to 4 feet long :)
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What was the answer J..?..:D
 
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