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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. MSDN by maglor_83 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And I thought the MSDN CDs ya get posted were bad.
    They come in a box about the size of an Eee PC (but taller), and contain just a CD in a sleeve cover.

  2. No wonder HP is a mess. by y86 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cost of shipping 150$?

  3. Just like their apps by jcrystal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I feel like being forced to download HP's 600MB installer just to get one printer driver is the software equivalent of this packaging phenomenon.

  4. You get what you measure by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The shipping department at HP probably get monitored on how many cubic ft of parcels they handle, with a bonus for the supervisors if they ship more than 300cuft of parcels per day.

    --
    Engineering is the art of compromise.
  5. Re:It's not the heat, it's the stupidity. by digital19 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the strength of your opinions I'm guessing you've never seen a paper mill or know that making pulp from trees for use in cardboard creates sulfur dioxide.

    'Here is a list of things recycled paper is environmentally better for than virgin paper: less bleaching, less energy, less pollutants, more benign pollutants, less impact on natural resources, less water, less waste to dispose of. The only waste product that is more of a problem with recycled paper is the sludge produced by removing ink and additives. However, this sludge is material that would otherwise be in landfills and it has repeatedly been proven to be non-toxic.'
    - From The Society for Natural Resources Conservation, Cornell University

    Yeah, I know you're going to come back at me with a quote from Rush Limbaugh or some advertisement you saw on tv... Or dismiss Cornell University as a hippy haven of intellectuals... Whatever.