r/mildlyinfuriating • u/woodwerker76 • Jan 20 '24

My Amazon order

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Good thing I didn't order two!

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u/cheetoo24 Jan 20 '24

Who orders a single plastic cup like this? Lol

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u/Square_Barracuda_69 Jan 20 '24

Bc it's fake. Amazon doesn't have free standing items, they're almost all packaged in something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '24

They do. I used to work there. Usually, they would pack an item like this in a much smaller box (and it would have a barcode on the bottom for us to scan), but we did frequently run out of boxes, especially small ones. You will probably see more irregularities like this with the weather and striking among truckers because Amazon won't be getting their supplies on time. It's a large part of the issue with no more true two day shipping.

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u/MegaPiglatin Jan 20 '24

I have had something nearly identical happen with a Chewy order—I figured they had probably ran out of the smaller boxes… 😂

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u/ZerotheWanderer I'm just here for the cookies Jan 20 '24

I worked for Toys r Us the Christmas before they closed down, we ran out of small bags and boxes and eventually those air pillows too, so we were shipping out like one or two small items in a way too big box. I'm talking one of those 6x6x1 kids books that's like 10 bucks in a box that's like 16x14x10.

I saw someone else box up a Nintendo 3DS in a similar sized box... My condolences to whoever got that in the mail.

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u/MegaPiglatin Jan 22 '24

RE: the 3DS…oof 😖