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i've only got limited experience working in a warehouse, but i think that yes, they can safely assume that any box packed loose in a shipping container or truc
by notatoad 5y ago
i've only got limited experience working in a warehouse, but i think that yes, they can safely assume that any box packed loose in a shipping container or truck doesn't need to be supported from the bottom.
suction on the side or top isn't really any different from a human packer grabbing it with a hand on each side. heavier things that really need bottom support would usually be shipped on pallets.
- abeyer 5y ago> isn't really any different from a human packer grabbing it with a hand on each side. heavier things that really need bottom support would usually be shipped on pallets. That certainly explains the sad state of a couple of heavy packages I've received recently after clearly making similar assumptions and being mishandled in shipping.
- taneq 5y agoI’d imagine if you’d just spent $$$$ on fancy robots ups probably fork out for nicer boxes if required to make the robots useful. ;)
- grecy 5y agoI spent a few summers working at a distribution center for all the cold and frozen food for every Safeway in the state. Upstairs people put boxes onto conveyor belts, the system sorted them into lanes and downstairs people put the boxes onto "per store" pallets. At least every 30 minutes someone would pickup a box of yogourt/orange juice/whatever and the bottom would fall out and they would wear the contents. Boxes are NOT usually designed to be pickup up from above.