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<blockquote data-quote="gandydancer" data-source="post: 181035" data-attributes="member: 9310"><p>Somebody already mentioned the paper boxes with the glued ends. Not just Staples -- Cascade, etc., etc. I understand that the production lines are set up to produce boxes suitable for palletized shipment... but you'd think volume and recipient dissatisfaction would justify a heavy-plastic shrinkwrap machine, which would work better on the paper boxes than it does for the water bottle shippers. And the shippers who ship bolts and golf balls in boxes with no inner bags. And Avon's lid-and-strap boxes, an improvement over the old fold-ups... but there are still lipstics and mascara bottes and whatnot everywhere every time a slug of Avons passed through the sort, and that's been true for 18 years that I know of. Even if the manufacturing costs are virtually zero (and I assume UPS's contract says UPS doesn't pay), there's the cost in time in dealing with the orders that arrive missing items and tracking all the damages. What are these companies thinking? What is UPS' BD thinking? Answer, of course, is that companies don't think, and the systems in place mean that no one is held responsible even if it's bad for everyone involved, except some managers whose numbers look good because they don't reflect reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gandydancer, post: 181035, member: 9310"] Somebody already mentioned the paper boxes with the glued ends. Not just Staples -- Cascade, etc., etc. I understand that the production lines are set up to produce boxes suitable for palletized shipment... but you'd think volume and recipient dissatisfaction would justify a heavy-plastic shrinkwrap machine, which would work better on the paper boxes than it does for the water bottle shippers. And the shippers who ship bolts and golf balls in boxes with no inner bags. And Avon's lid-and-strap boxes, an improvement over the old fold-ups... but there are still lipstics and mascara bottes and whatnot everywhere every time a slug of Avons passed through the sort, and that's been true for 18 years that I know of. Even if the manufacturing costs are virtually zero (and I assume UPS's contract says UPS doesn't pay), there's the cost in time in dealing with the orders that arrive missing items and tracking all the damages. What are these companies thinking? What is UPS' BD thinking? Answer, of course, is that companies don't think, and the systems in place mean that no one is held responsible even if it's bad for everyone involved, except some managers whose numbers look good because they don't reflect reality. [/QUOTE]
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