Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
Giant parcel gets rapped
Amazon box so big buyer fits inside
AN online shopper was stunned when a small thin pole she ordered from Amazon was delivered in a cardboard box so big she could fit inside it.
The 4ft by 2ft carton was for a boom pole – used to hold a microphone – which was wrapped inside 30ft of brown paper.
The lightweight pole lengthens to two metres but is just two feet long when it is not extended. It also comes wrapped in plastic packaging.
Buyer Jade Nightscales, 26, said: “I couldn’t believe the amount that came with it.
“The boom pole is so small – it was a bit of a needle in a haystack-type job.
RECYCLED
“It seems strange that they’d use this much wrapping but I’ll get it recycled for sure.”
Market researcher Jade, who is 5ft 1in and from Bristol, added: “I had to go one step further and climb inside because I knew I would fit.”
Amazon said: “We continue to pursue waste reduction initiatives... to promote easyto-open, 100% recyclable packaging and to ship products in their own packages without additional shipping boxes.”
Such efforts also seek to eliminate hard plastic “clamshell” cases and plastic-coated wire ties commonly used in toy packaging.
“These initiatives have grown to include more than 1.2 million products over time and have eliminated more than 36,000 tons of excess packaging just in 2015,” added the Amazon representative.