coriolis
Aug 19th, 2009, 09:08 AM
I just had to share this, however, I'll quote it since you have to register to see the OT forum there:
Original forum post here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=409825
Recently, I ordered a 10ft AC cord from HP for use with my power adaptor. For just one small piece of power plug, this is how it was delivered to me. In a 10kg wooden pallet, directly from Inventec in Shanghai.
This is simply ridiculous as the barely 300g box was contained within a larger box and strapped to a wooden pallet weighing more than the contents itself. DHL must have charged HP a lot for this shipment, so how could this even be cost effective.
I am kind of annoyed with HP as I had to drag this pellet from my apartment lobby, into the lift, out of the lift, into my home, cut it open, remove the contents and discard all the junk packaging. This is ultra fail for environmental conservation.
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1498/hppellet.gif (http://img504.imageshack.us/i/hppellet.gif/)
Wow, are there like 5 laptops in there (it is that big).
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1576/hppellet2.gif (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/hppellet2.gif/)
Whoops...just a tiny box.
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9312/hpcord.gif (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/hpcord.gif/)
What do we have here? A power cord!
Original forum post here: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=409825
Recently, I ordered a 10ft AC cord from HP for use with my power adaptor. For just one small piece of power plug, this is how it was delivered to me. In a 10kg wooden pallet, directly from Inventec in Shanghai.
This is simply ridiculous as the barely 300g box was contained within a larger box and strapped to a wooden pallet weighing more than the contents itself. DHL must have charged HP a lot for this shipment, so how could this even be cost effective.
I am kind of annoyed with HP as I had to drag this pellet from my apartment lobby, into the lift, out of the lift, into my home, cut it open, remove the contents and discard all the junk packaging. This is ultra fail for environmental conservation.
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/1498/hppellet.gif (http://img504.imageshack.us/i/hppellet.gif/)
Wow, are there like 5 laptops in there (it is that big).
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/1576/hppellet2.gif (http://img21.imageshack.us/i/hppellet2.gif/)
Whoops...just a tiny box.
http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/9312/hpcord.gif (http://img25.imageshack.us/i/hpcord.gif/)
What do we have here? A power cord!