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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

• 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.