Yes, the box is very small. However, when you look at the spool itself, there is no wasted space in it, no extra plastic, no printing. If we could take all the extra waste on a regular spool and just bring it down to the thread and the center just big enough to fit on the spindle, I think we would be quite surprised at how small our spools would be. Dual and Clark would look like it had very little thread it and that would be shocking, too.