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Their packing has gotten comically bad, particularly for sensitively items like books and such. I've greatly reduced my Amazon buying over the years due to issu

by bmitc 3y ago

Their packing has gotten comically bad, particularly for sensitively items like books and such. I've greatly reduced my Amazon buying over the years due to issues with damaged items, and lately, Amazon is getting more aggressive about discouraging returns. But I'm not going to pay $30+ for a new hardcover that comes damaged and covered with dirt and grime.

hedgehog 3y ago
I ordered a gallon of urethane and they just stuck it in a comically large box with no padding. Miracle it didn't break all the way open in shipping. Edit: They also tried to send a replacement, marked it as undeliverable, and charged me for it. I don't think Amazon was always this bad.
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aowiejtriawj 3y ago
It seems like all shipping companies have gotten comically bad in the past year or two. This past summer I mailed boxes to seven family members via USPS. Only 3 of 7 boxes made it to their destinations intact. Three were delivered but destroyed, crushed, like either someone drove over them with a truck or literally jumped up and down on them several times, and one just disappeared. UPS has also delivered to me several completely destroyed packages in the past few months, also looked like they were driven over by trucks.
- KennyBlanken 3y ago
  I've been ordering stuff online for two decades and "badly packed stuff" is nothing new, I assure you.
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- smsm42 3y ago
  Same here, noticed a lot of stuff from Amazon lately arrived in a condition as if somebody used it as a piñata. Fortunately, for the stuff I ordered it didn't really ruin anything except the external packaging, which I didn't need anyway, but I hate to think what it'd done to a book...
mips_r4300i 3y ago
Ordered a new cable modem and received it today. They put the shipping label ON the retail packaging. No box! This is FBA. Of course it was scuffed and scraped all to hell.
- woleium 3y ago
  This is an option at checkout, they default to “minimize packaging, use the box it comes in”, but you can opt out. Personally i think this is a great move that reduces overpackaging and its associated environmental impact
  - bmitc 3y ago
    > Personally i think this is a great move that reduces overpackaging and its associated environmental impact I've chosen to do Amazon's Amazon Day Delivery service several times, but I have stopped doing it, basically without a choice. It's guaranteed to worsen the packaging. They just throw everything in a big enough (normally bigger than it needs to be) box and put a piece of paper in there and call it good. It's just unacceptable. Plus, their incentives for doing so are not good, often non-existent, and you are still paying the full Prime price, which keeps increasing.
- Cthulhu_ 3y ago
  In theory, the boxes that items come in - especially electronics - should be good enough for shipping, they're often full of padding and the exterior is glossy / lightly water resistant; I've ordered a few items that came without a box like that, it's fine, the packaging has no value. It's more that retailers can be anal about box quality because that's how items were sold at one point.

by bmitc 3y ago

hedgehog 3y ago

I ordered a gallon of urethane and they just stuck it in a comically large box with no padding. Miracle it didn't break all the way open in shipping. Edit: They also tried to send a replacement, marked it as undeliverable, and charged me for it. I don't think Amazon was always this bad.

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aowiejtriawj 3y ago

It seems like all shipping companies have gotten comically bad in the past year or two. This past summer I mailed boxes to seven family members via USPS. Only 3 of 7 boxes made it to their destinations intact. Three were delivered but destroyed, crushed, like either someone drove over them with a truck or literally jumped up and down on them several times, and one just disappeared. UPS has also delivered to me several completely destroyed packages in the past few months, also looked like they were driven over by trucks.

KennyBlanken 3y ago
I've been ordering stuff online for two decades and "badly packed stuff" is nothing new, I assure you.
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smsm42 3y ago
Same here, noticed a lot of stuff from Amazon lately arrived in a condition as if somebody used it as a piñata. Fortunately, for the stuff I ordered it didn't really ruin anything except the external packaging, which I didn't need anyway, but I hate to think what it'd done to a book...

mips_r4300i 3y ago

Ordered a new cable modem and received it today. They put the shipping label ON the retail packaging. No box! This is FBA. Of course it was scuffed and scraped all to hell.

woleium 3y ago
This is an option at checkout, they default to “minimize packaging, use the box it comes in”, but you can opt out. Personally i think this is a great move that reduces overpackaging and its associated environmental impact
- bmitc 3y ago
  > Personally i think this is a great move that reduces overpackaging and its associated environmental impact I've chosen to do Amazon's Amazon Day Delivery service several times, but I have stopped doing it, basically without a choice. It's guaranteed to worsen the packaging. They just throw everything in a big enough (normally bigger than it needs to be) box and put a piece of paper in there and call it good. It's just unacceptable. Plus, their incentives for doing so are not good, often non-existent, and you are still paying the full Prime price, which keeps increasing.
Cthulhu_ 3y ago
In theory, the boxes that items come in - especially electronics - should be good enough for shipping, they're often full of padding and the exterior is glossy / lightly water resistant; I've ordered a few items that came without a box like that, it's fine, the packaging has no value. It's more that retailers can be anal about box quality because that's how items were sold at one point.