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From: mp@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: equipment packaging
Message-ID: <710@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Sep-83 14:28:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.710
Posted: Tue Sep 13 14:28:48 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Sep-83 23:21:07 EDT
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
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Have you ever noticed how some companies package little things in big
boxes?  People joke about the extra storage space that the PDP11/44 and
the RK07 cabinets have, but the real prizewinners are boxes.

For instance, today we got some boxes containing DEC color monitors.
A 4-inch tube of glass cleaner and a small instruction manual were in a
3 x 7.5 x 14 inch box.  OK so far, right?  But then this box was packed
inside a 12 x 16 x 22 inch box (along with lots of padding)!  This
box was in fact larger than the box that the monitor itself came in!

It makes you wonder how much extra you're paying for packaging...
	Mark