Amazon Launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" 353
mallumax notes Amazon's new Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. Over several years the retailer hopes to convince many of its suppliers to offer consumer-friendlier packaging. It's starting with just 19 products from Mattel, Fisher-Price, Microsoft, and Transcend. Until this program spreads to more products, better get one of these (ThinkGeek and Slashdot share a corporate overlord). From Amazon's announcement: "The Frustration-Free Package is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, and wire ties. It's designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging. Products with Frustration-Free Packaging can frequently be shipped in their own boxes, without an additional shipping box. Amazon works directly with manufacturers to box products in Frustration-Free Packages right off the assembly lines, which reduces the overall amount of packing materials used."
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I can't help it! I'm a discrete math major. I'm like 5 layers away from the soldering iron!
Oblig. Penny Arcade Link (Score:4, Funny)
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I think the FBI have him on a protection program, even his family don't know where he is now.
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I've always wondered, with someone being told to turn in a geek card for something trivial in nearly every thread on Slashdot, where do they all go? Are they redistributed to approved candidates, or is there just a pile of them somewhere foretelling the eventual extinction of the card-carrying geek?
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And I always figured that this packaging would end when someone hijacked a plane with it.
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Hmm, torture:
The food is packaged in throughly sealed blister packs, and they aren't given a knife, tin snips, band saws, thermal lances [wikipedia.org], etc. to open them.
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Hell, they could build the plane with it, and you could probably land the thing a hell of lot harder without breaking anything, except a few bones maybe.
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If he has a knife sharp enough to accidentally cut through 2 gauge wire, we should probably let him keep his geek card.
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By the way... sometimes there's stuff in those packages that you didn't order. I got small packets of gummy bears a few times, and a "complimentary book" (twice). All in all, I can't complain.
Last time I ordered from Amazon, they sent a second box, even though I only ordered one thing. Puzzled, I opened it up, and found a PS3 controller recharger inside. Though the box had an address label for me on it, the invoice inside said it was actually for some guy in Tennessee. (Yes, I did do the honest thing and send it back.)
Every time I order something from Amazon, they find a new and exciting way to screw it up.
Re:How about frustration free snack bags? (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps, but be aware that rodent urine is probably more fit for consumption than the soda.
Re:lawsuits... (Score:3, Funny)
Snips AND heavy work gloves? Simpler to use sharks with laser-beams attached to their heads.
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But this was at McDonlads, so that's irrelevant.
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I know a guy named Habib who owns many box cutters.
No scissors, though.
Wonder what he has all those box cutters for, I've never seen a box in his house.
He must get a lot of deliveries after hours.