I totally agree with you on this. Me and my boyfriend buy computer parts to upgrade our custom high-end computers and so far, only a tiny handful will shipped to us in huge boxes and once you open it, a tiny little box comes out of it where the item is tuck away at. Other places we order -sighs- they always ship stuff out to us and it’s like, ‘are you kidding me? a giant box with stuffing for a few books or some other items’ and ‘what a waste of space’ So yea, some companies need to find a better way to stuff their items in smaller boxes that is just a TAD bigger than the item. Love your videos of Japan, someday I plan on going there for summer classes (aboard). Take care!! XDD ^__^

-reader from rural town in Illniois (IL) (cant even spell the state x_X)

Let’e me take a spin on this. This could be a reason why some company does this. For most delivery companies, weigh carry higher priority over size. I mean as long as package is under certain size, the cost of shipping goes by the weight. So, this is actually make sense for company to have box/packages at a certain size and make it 1 size fit all. Even if it’s larger. So company only have to have 1 inventory of packaging material for variety of product. In the case of Adaptec, it does make sense to have 1 size of box that can fit 50-100 variation of product, IDE, SCSI, SATA, RAID and etc ranging from full size PCI to half-size PCI to mini-PCI. The cost of packaging would actually be lower if Adaptec order 1 million boxs of single size vs 100k of 10sized boxes.

Big packages prevent USPS employees stealing them. It’s easy to hide a small package. I heard this from a security expert.

Bigger packaging makes sure the package does not get lost in transit as well as a theft deterrent at point of purchase.Standard sizes reduces cost which gets passed on to the consumer.Still better than plastic clam packs.