Amazon shopper shocked over massive box used to mail small item
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A woman was shocked by the size of box Amazon used for her tiny product. (SWNS)
An online shopper was shocked when a small item she ordered from Amazon was delivered in a box so big she can fit inside.
The 4 feet by 2 feet cardboard box was for a small boom pole ‒ used to hold a microphone ‒ that was hidden inside with 30 feet of paper.
The RØDE Micro Lightweight Boompole lengthens to 6.5 feet but is just 2 feet long unextended. It also comes wrapped in plastic packaging.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Buyer Jade Nightscales, 26, said: “I just 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.
“It seems strange that they’d use this much wrapping but I’ll get it recycled for sure.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Nightscales, who is 5 feet 1 inch tall, added: “I had to go one step further and climb inside because I knew I would fit.”
An Amazon spokesperson said: “We continue to pursue multiyear waste reduction initiatives – e-commerce ready packaging and Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging – to promote easy-to-open, 100 percent 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 the plastic-coated wire ties commonly used in toy packaging.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“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.”