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Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging"
mallumax notes Amazon's new Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. Over several years the retailer hopes to convince many of its suppliers to offer consumer-friendlier packaging. It's starting with just 19 products from Mattel, Fisher-Price, Microsoft, and Transcend. Until this program spreads to more products, better get one of these (ThinkGeek and Slashdot share a corporate overlord). From Amazon's announcement: "The Frustration-Free Package is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, and wire ties. It's designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging. Products with Frustration-Free Packaging can frequently be shipped in their own boxes, without an additional shipping box. Amazon works directly with manufacturers to box products in Frustration-Free Packages right off the assembly lines, which reduces the overall amount of packing materials used."
This is an outrage! I demand hard to open packaging! If you can open it with your bare hands / normal scissors its just not good enough.
Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly
Turn in your geek card, a soldering iron and heat shrink tubing will fix any power cord from 28AWG to about 2 gauge.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
I can't help it! I'm a discrete math major. I'm like 5 layers away from the soldering iron!
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
The Space Devil will not be pleased.
In 3010, the potatoes triumphed
The scissors come in a blister pack too.
I think the FBI have him on a protection program, even his family don't know where he is now.
I've always wondered, with someone being told to turn in a geek card for something trivial in nearly every thread on Slashdot, where do they all go? Are they redistributed to approved candidates, or is there just a pile of them somewhere foretelling the eventual extinction of the card-carrying geek?
And I always figured that this packaging would end when someone hijacked a plane with it.
The AntiJoey
Hmm, torture:
The food is packaged in throughly sealed blister packs, and they aren't given a knife, tin snips, band saws, thermal lances, etc. to open them.
If I have nothing to hide, don't search me
Hell, they could build the plane with it, and you could probably land the thing a hell of lot harder without breaking anything, except a few bones maybe.
What?
If he has a knife sharp enough to accidentally cut through 2 gauge wire, we should probably let him keep his geek card.
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
yeah -- but getting the blister pack off the tin snips -- chicken and egg.
What changed under Obama? Nothing Good
Yeah, my Leatherman came in a blister pack. I finally burned it open with a lighter.
By the way... sometimes there's stuff in those packages that you didn't order. I got small packets of gummy bears a few times, and a "complimentary book" (twice). All in all, I can't complain.
Last time I ordered from Amazon, they sent a second box, even though I only ordered one thing. Puzzled, I opened it up, and found a PS3 controller recharger inside. Though the box had an address label for me on it, the invoice inside said it was actually for some guy in Tennessee. (Yes, I did do the honest thing and send it back.)
Every time I order something from Amazon, they find a new and exciting way to screw it up.
Not a typewriter
Perhaps, but be aware that rodent urine is probably more fit for consumption than the soda.
May the Maths Be with you!
Snips AND heavy work gloves? Simpler to use sharks with laser-beams attached to their heads.
But this was at McDonlads, so that's irrelevant.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
I know a guy named Habib who owns many box cutters.
No scissors, though.
Wonder what he has all those box cutters for, I've never seen a box in his house.
He must get a lot of deliveries after hours.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.