Monday, November 13, 2006

An Interesting Problem...

So I know that the holidays for some of you are near...to keep that those creative juices flowing, we would like to share this interesting situation we encountered last week.

Joanna, everyone's favorite trainer, had a Dell replacement battery sent to her last week.

The box that the battery came in looked like this:


And guess what was the size of the battery?


We kid you not. It like opening a box of pizza only to find a 1/8 slice of pizza in the box.

So a battery of that size? 4 pieces of foam in a cardboard box to protect the battery.

Now we're pretty sure that Dell probably have a one-box-fit-all system so that they can have use the boxes to ship computer parts of different sizes.

However when you're talking about a computer part this small,

it's a waste of resources if you ship it in a box like that.

Does anyone have any good ideas on how we can improve this? Minimum materials used, yet maximum protection for the computer parts.

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