Homemother

Funny! We get mailed prescriptions, too, but they come in a large heavy plastic white envelope. No chance of ripping open. You need a pair of scissors or a knife will cut through that plastic. Only once in the four years we've used the service has any bottle been slightly crushed. The integrity of those bottles is really strong. They really don't need a huge box. Does anyone have that many prescriptions? How many bottles would fill that whole box???

vivoaks

Are you kidding me!!!?? How stupid! But actually, that wouldn't explain why our rates are so high....that shipper paid much more than needed to ship those needles, so he's helping out the P.O.!! He's actually helping keep our rates lower by overspending. Dumb!

Flo Pierce

Explain this ??? Why did my grandsons (queen bees ) he ordered come in an envelope. It was just a good thing I didn't
step on it. He has more coming this week. I hope they are in
a box of somekind.

But all over the price of shipping is sometimes more than the
item being shipped.

Marysewfun

I had a book sent like that - and to make matters worse, I even had to go to the post office to retrieve it because the box wouldn't fit in our rural mailbox!

Sometimes when I order stuff online it says will come UPS or (this last item) Fed Ex Ground, and it came in a large envelope in the USPS (mail). Same cost and same amount of time to get it as estimated in the purchase.

Marysewfun

Scissor Queen

Maybe they mailed it in a box because they recycle product boxes and padded envelopes would be an added expense????

Doreen

I can't believe the shipping is so high. I just cancelled an order for a ruler. The ruler was 12.00 and shipping would have been over 7.00. The ruler only weight.90 lbs.

Marysewfun

The state ordered all of our office supplies on contract/vendor - and we quite often got ridiculous size boxes like that for a small calculator, indexes for filing or notebooks, or an order of pens. The vendor finally decided that since their employees delivered it on trucks to us anyway, that they would be able to pick up the previously used boxes to be reused.

Teresa 54

LOL

Jo Mama

Who did you orde from? I would like to see who works in their shipping department.

Kappy

When UPS delivers, my husband eyes the "big" box and asks, "What did you get now!" I just laugh because I know that all that is in it is thread and a pattern! I tell him when a "really big box" arrives is when he needs to worry! LOL