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HP Shatters Excessive Packaging World Record

Posted by timothy on from the please-say-this-isn't-true dept.

An anonymous reader writes "HP customers will be familiar with their bizarre packaging practices (5 pounds of packaging for 8 license keys!); lets just say this story is not an isolated incident ... " I've seen some excessive packaging, but perhaps nothing to top this.

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  1. Nothing new here by alcourt · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sounds about typical for HP. Back many years ago when I was primarily an HP-UX SA, excessive packaging was the norm as well.

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    1. Re:Nothing new here by Stripe7 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Standard practice indeed. I went to a customer site once and was taken aback when I saw his cubicle filled with HP boxes. He had over 400 HP servers and he had the same couple of sheets of paper in a box for each server. I am not sure if it was more than 400 little boxes I remember about a dozen or so huge boxes containing little boxes each with a couple of sheets of paper.

    2. Re:Nothing new here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      But... but... HP and Dell scored top marks from Greenpeace. Clearly the packaging was needed to protect the license papers which means you'd kill more tree for more paper if they are damaged.

      [This also show that Greenpeace ranking is irrelevant]

  2. Re:It's not the heat, it's the stupidity. by OolimPhon · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... What many people fail to realise is that linen which is still a prized fabric is actually made from hemp and linen can last quite a long time...

    I don't think so. Linen is made from Flax fibres http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linen as a simple wiki reference can confirm. My grandparents grew up in an area where flax was grown for linen production.

  3. Re:Can also be done with Xylene! by gnick · · Score: 4, Informative

    It can also be done more cheaply with Xylene (paint thinner). I just love to see huge chunks of styrofoam melt into a goo! :D Plus if you're really out for a good time, the resulting goo should still be flammable...obviously there are safety and environmental issues there though.

    Back in high school, we used to mix Styrofoam and gasoline. We'd hit the furniture store dumpster after closing on delivery-day and load the cars up with all the Styrofoam we could stuff in. Then go out to the desert, pour a couple of gallons of gas in a waste basket and start chucking in the Styrofoam. Pour our the resulting sludge and light. It burns hot and burns for a long time.

    Very environmentally unfriendly and you're likely to inhale way too much vaporous gasoline, but good fun for juvenile fire-bugs.

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