Jul 21 2008Run By Monkeys?: HP's Shipping Department
HP just flipped Mother Nature the bird and shipped sixteen 2-page software licenses inside a huge freaking box. Inside the box were another 16 smaller boxes, each containing a single two-page license (picture of the big box after the jump). Now I'm not saying this infraction warrants a bag of packing peanuts be crammed up the shipping department's collective ass, but I am strongly hinting at it. And, I dunno, maybe sealing the hole with some packing tape. Can't have those peanuts getting loose, bad for the environment.
Hit the jump for the big box.
Hewlett-Packard Crowned Head Of The Stupid Shipping Gang After Packing 32 Sheets Of Paper In 17 Boxes [consumerist]
Thanks Josh, I just shipped your shoutout in a refrigerator box.
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Reader Comments
1. Rumsy - July 21, 2008 12:49 PM
Eco friendly i see ^^
2. Sage - July 21, 2008 12:50 PM
Maybe there was a midget inside , or a family of clowns .
3. guate6 - July 21, 2008 12:53 PM
I want to say "I've seen worse," but this ranks among the worse I've seen.
HP FTL
4. sfoiz - July 21, 2008 1:01 PM
whos to say that they didn't want to make a fort? i'm guilty of ordering 20 medium sized boxes from ups to do so.
5. SmokingGirl - July 21, 2008 1:25 PM
Blanket forts are the way to go, #4.
I am queen in my blanket fort. Look, barbarians! *pew, pew*
6. bedot - July 21, 2008 1:26 PM
I guess they missed the memo that envelopes exist.
7. Theater Security - July 21, 2008 1:38 PM
I'm just going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they were being shipped to someone important to process, review, copy... etc. I highly doubt that they ship something like this often. But hey, giving people the benefit of the doubt has certainly proven wrong for me in the past. Like that time I trusted that the difference between a $20 and a $25 blowjob in Vegas was really worth it. Turns out you get herpes either way.
8. Brandon - July 21, 2008 1:57 PM
Thats what happens when you buy 16 laptops on eBay.
9. Trevor - July 21, 2008 2:22 PM
I don't buy it. The packaging looks very sloppy with cheap packing tape. This has to have been shipped to the guy via a third party/reseller/VAR/distributor. HP would not send a box that looked like that.
10. B - July 21, 2008 2:35 PM
This can't be official HP handiwork...there's two regular boxes taped together vertically, instead of just using one bigger box?
If anyone actually shipped this, they're an idiot. But I'd be surprised if it was HP.
11. Lynz - July 21, 2008 2:55 PM
Makes me sick.
12. Steven Klassen - July 21, 2008 3:00 PM
That is priceless. I worked at HP for a while and the shipping department didn't seem that clueless (at least in Vancouver, WA).
13. ov - July 21, 2008 10:22 PM
Fake. Made up, pixels, etc.
14. Paulie Danger - July 22, 2008 1:39 AM
When I worked at UPS, we would tape over the 'air holes' in the Vermont Teddybear boxes. Gotta make your job fun.
15. Michael Stebbins - July 22, 2008 2:30 AM
I love that the ad at the top of the page for this entry was...for HP.
16. Herr Scharaempfl - July 22, 2008 7:16 AM
i know how this happens-
these people were bored.
i absolutely understand them.
at least they got us guessing about what they had in mind, or what greater secret lies behind this...
17. http://webescape.wordpress.com/ - July 22, 2008 7:19 AM
To Sage (#2) good idea, tell you what if they actually ship stuff with a free midget I might actually buy from them.
18. malcolm - July 22, 2008 8:20 AM
@ #5, bedot: The memos were in envelopes... but they couldn't figure out what the envelopes were or how to use them, so they ended up in the trash. ;-)
19. Sofi - July 22, 2008 3:27 PM
I had the same issue, but if you can believe it, my situation was even more ridiculous:
http://toronto.optimuscrime.com/?p=149
20. Matt - August 10, 2008 12:51 AM
Well, they must have known you are a die hard Halo fan, and sent you some extra cardboard to make yourself some armor and a couple SMGs to shoot out those popcorn as pellets around your office!!!!!
Then you will be king!
and to add to that, the rockband bundle comes in a smaller box! LOL!