I just purchased a wind fairing from Amazon.com for my car’s roof rack. I wanted to keep down the wind noise and hopefully improve my gas mileage. I could have easily bought this in town but I had some points on my credit card and I could purchase it for free if I went to Amazon.com. Free beats paid any day.
Soon after I placed my order this huge box showed up at my office. Inside was the box containing my wind fairing. Of course I want my order to be safe on its cross country trip to my office but this is more than a little overkill. And what you don’t see is all the paper used to protect my purchase.
I thought Amazon.com had made an effort to cut back on the size of packaging they used but I guess it didn’t get down to this shipper. Maybe they just wanted to put it into an Amazon.com branded box? Upon closer inspection of the Yakima wind fairing box you could see the shipping label used to send the box to Amazon.com. They didn’t need any of that extra packaging.
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