Fail, Owned and Pwn moments in pictures and videos. Share fails, pwns, and owns with the world on FAIL Blog.
 

« Previous | Next »

Packaging Fail


Thanks to Ian for:

Packaging Fail

Incorrect source or offensive?

Add this to your blog:
(Copy & paste code)

» 60 Failures in Communication

  1. guylikecom says:

    rofl!

  2. dellcustomer says:

    looks like dell

  3. pacres says:

    Nice, It’s happened to me before as well. :P

  4. The other guy says:

    That had to have been newegg

  5. John Chow has a video of this happening to him.

    http://stuffgirlslike.wordpress.com

  6. fail blog commenter says:

    hahahaa

  7. Pam Phillips says:

    Wow. They must have been trained how to pack delicate equipment at IBM.

  8. lwayswright says:

    WOW way to package “green” LOL!

  9. travelnooks says:

    Haha! So that’s how they inflate prices!

  10. A.Ho says:

    How many trees have died for this? :(

  11. Ed says:

    no! if you’ve ever worked for Fedex or UPS u know they literally smash the small boxes into extra space. This is actually a smart way to go.

  12. Ian Chard says:

    I couldn’t believe it when I unpacked this… it’s actually an SFP, a pretty hardy little device… the two smaller boxes on the left would have been more than enough.

    And no, not Dell, not IBM… I’ll save the supplier’s blushes :-)

  13. Zoed Vega says:

    This what you see is what they call priced packaging.
    Companies do this to uplift the price on shipping to YOU the customers.

    I know this because I used to work for a company,. that did this and many other spiteful things.
    reason why I quit the company, because I did not the things they did to people.

    Companies that use large packaging for small items get commission from the shipping companies for using what they call LOT Packaging.
    And there are different categories of LOT Packing.

    This is so deceitful to people, and I hate companies that do this to innocent people.

  14. Homer says:

    This is not a fail…it is a WIN for Milhouse’s dad at the box factory.

  15. M says:

    But everyone knows playing with the box is the best part…

  16. MistressOfEternity says:

    All I can say is “meh.”

  17. Ed says:

    dude, Milhouse’s dad worked at the cracker factory, not the box factory get it right geez

  18. A company once shipped me Iomega Zip disks in a manila envelope. The disks survived, but the plastic cases got busted. So, it is good to see that some companies are serious about protecting the merchandise. Insanely serious.

    http://aphilosopher.wordpress.com

  19. ktr2003 says:

    hmmm . . . maybe the company got paranoid or the company ran out of smaller boxes, but that doesn’t explain the boxes within boxes thingy . . . to come to think about it, it is strange isn’t it?

  20. Deadmond says:

    Millhouse’s dad worked in a cracker factory. haha, memory fail!

  21. Gregor says:

    It’s a Russian Nesting Box!

  22. JOOLA says:

    I got a USB- memory that way once…

  23. [...] An epic failure in packaging from the delightfully silly Fail Blog. [...]

  24. Cymond says:

    This probably happened due to multiple companies in the distrbution chain. Each one simply repackaged the product on its way out of their warehouse.

    … or maybe not.

  25. Maybe you did at UPS, Ed. We never smashed stuff up at FedEx. We even shipped wedding cakes in boxes, intact.

    That explains my last UPS shipment, though.

  26. Better than Fastenal. They’d send us 80 lbs of steel bolts with ONE layer of plastic tape over the box, no internal bag, no double packing. Too stupid to learn, even when a packaging engineer was sent over to advise them.

  27. Dark says:

    Well, i suppose at least you got the contents. And somehow, I reckon that overpackaging is better than underpackaging.

  28. Angie says:

    Hey don’t knock it I do this for christmas at times, makes for fun watching them dig through a 72 inch tv box full of packing peanuts for a gift card hiden somewhere inside.

    • chrishby says:

      My thought exactly. Always good for the small gift that looks like nothing under the tree — at least for a child who doesn’t get the “small is often more valuable” idea.

  29. Kyle says:

    An entire acre of forest died for that part.
    -moment of silence time-

  30. Jason says:

    FAIL Fail.

    The arrows depicting which object came out of which is wrong.

    Everyone who posted before me without commenting on this failure…Fail.

  31. Dave says:

    I hope you reused the boxes :)

  32. Joe says:

    This happens at my job all the time. Our warehouse will send a 4×2x10 inch box inside a container big enough to mail a fridge in and fill the rest with foam peanuts and bubble wrap.

  33. thirdwheel says:

    I used to work at a department store sorting out the load – there was one company who will go unnamed who used to do this all the time, there would be a 30cm cube box and it would have a couple of staplers in it. Very annoying.

    And what’s worse, the idiots at the distribution centre would sometimes put these boxes either at the bottom or halfway up a pallet – resulting in very dodgy looking pallets that have collapsed. We used to call them “Battle Star” pallets – pallets which would fall apart easily. (star wars reference, see “a new hope” if you need a clue)

  34. mlh says:

    OH IT’S SO TRUE…wasting resouces unnecessarily

  35. steve says:

    ?A BOX IN A BOX IN A BOX? *HMMMMMM win or fail*

  36. Drew says:

    anyone ever watch that show “out of the box”?

  37. Rhapsody says:

    I got my graphics card delivered in a 1m x 1m box. But then I found out Jeff was inside, so I reckon it was appropriately sized.

  38. luvzero says:

    SAVE THE ENVIROMENT PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  39. O: THIER NOT HELPING SAVE THE WORL *GASP*

  40. amber says:

    i hate them

  41. xRKOx says:

    I guess I’m stupid because I don’t get it

  42. solo piano says:

    these online retailers love to package things very very well.


Your Comment

 

 

Search

Daily Shipments of Fail via Email


EmailSubscribe
Enter your email address:
 

TwitterFollow us
on Twitter »
FacebookBecome a
Facebook fan »
RSSRSS Feed »
  • Tags

  • Pictures by Month

  • Recent Comments

    Qwaz on So, I just pee into the DVD…
    k@ the custard fairy… on So, I just pee into the DVD…
    Qwaz on So, I just pee into the DVD…
    TheRowdyRef on Mmmm, unprocessed french …
    Donald Zerli, Patrio… on And the Darwin Award Goes…
    k@ the custard fairy… on So, I just pee into the DVD…
    Qwaz on So, I just pee into the DVD…
    Lilybean on Suspicious Fail
    lol on So, I just pee into the DVD…
    Donald Zerli, Patrio… on And the Darwin Award Goes…
  • RSS Cheezburger Network Blog

  • Even More Lulz