My Dad sent me this when he ordered 4 pen drives from Play.com a few years ago. Each one was loose inside each package.
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And the grandkids love it for messy painting on the kitchen floor.I don't get a newspaper so all that lovely brown paper is wonderful for sticking in my charcoal chimney to light the BBQ.
The normal reason, which I'm sure you know, that small things like pen drives/CDs/DVDs/whatever came in separate boxes was due to LVCR. If they were all put in one box the delivery could have been over the threshold and you'd have had to pay VAT on the lot
Overkill packaging?
Shirts. These are my absolute bug-bear. Why they have so much paper, plastic and card is beyond me. Really makes no sense at all.
I get that, no different to ordering anything from Jersey. They are just 3cm long with no packaging, they should have just used small jiffy bags like Amazon's frustration free packaging now. They were just loose rattling about inside.
indeed - it's not like you can wear them straight away, the still need ironing etc...
It's the plastic clips that get me. One of them always hangs on for dear life!