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Amazon, or any other vendor for that matter, trying to figure out the smallest single box to ship all the items in your order using optimal packing material.
by yumraj 5y ago
Amazon, or any other vendor for that matter, trying to figure out the smallest single box to ship all the items in your order using optimal packing material.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoIt's seem abundantly clear from real world experience that even if they have an algorithmic method to determine this, it's only 1 input into the process. Hello, amzn shipping box that is 8x larger than the single content package.
- yumraj 5y ago> it's only 1 input into the process I'm sure you're right.. Other potential inputs are: - availability of boxes and the type of packing material near the packer - availability of space in the shipping container, so that it packs. This is again an application of the above concept. :) - the item being shipped, fragile vs not so fragile and so on - weight of the item, and how it fits in the container, similar to above and so on. Or, it is equally possible that currently there is no algorithm. the person packing just makes a judgement call :)