I got the same box last week for a set of bars. Must be their standard go to box.Fuck, they're still doing this shit?
Little Things You Hate
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pink poodle
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Fuck me I can procrastinate! Wasn't working tomorrow, got an afternoon call asking if I can start at 6am? I wouldn't mind the money (custom snowboard dreams) so I guess so. Then I am supposed to send an invoice today to a fellow who wants to bring his sons to Japan for a week. Well rather than do the smart thing and get onto that then have an early night I decide to fuck around cleaning the kitchen, then make a mess cooking dulce de leche, them do dulce de leche + banana meringues...which I of course try and photograph to show all you people but the photos look shitter than usual so I finally get the laptop out and fuck me I need to charge it.
Well invoice is done now and I'll have about 5 hours sleep before work because here I am procrastinating about going to sleep!
Well invoice is done now and I'll have about 5 hours sleep before work because here I am procrastinating about going to sleep!
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
That was not an easy start to the day.
The benefit of procrastination is that you have nothing to do today and something to do tomorrow.
The Duckmeister
Has a juicy midrange
Bar & stem I got from Bike24 earler this year came in a similarly oversized box. Maybe it's just not feasible to source handlebar-proportioned boxes....
oldcorollas
Levin the moment
Smaller narrow box too tempting for couriers to try and bend in half?
dancaseyimages
Mountain bike pornographer
Just ordered one set of Pedals from MTBD, keen to see what size box it comes in.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Just ordered one set of Pedals from MTBD, keen to see what size box it comes in.
cammas
Seamstress
I decided to send them a tongue in cheek message about it and turns out they use a 3rd party now which is highly automated, anyway here’s their response.
Bars are quite a difficult item to send, as they are really light, but a lot wider than most standard boxes.
We do actually have a smaller, custom sized box that is designed specifically to carry bars, but is only big enough for the bars.
We use a 3rd party company for all of our warehousing operations. It’s a highly automated setup that will select the size of the box required depending on what items are in the order and the dimensions associated with those products. The box is picked and labelled before the physical size of the order is even seen.
More often than not, such a combination will get split. The bars will get shipped in the handler bar box, and the grips would go into a post satchel.
Sometimes, we end up with orders, like yours, getting popped into a larger than necessary box.
Bars are quite a difficult item to send, as they are really light, but a lot wider than most standard boxes.
We do actually have a smaller, custom sized box that is designed specifically to carry bars, but is only big enough for the bars.
We use a 3rd party company for all of our warehousing operations. It’s a highly automated setup that will select the size of the box required depending on what items are in the order and the dimensions associated with those products. The box is picked and labelled before the physical size of the order is even seen.
More often than not, such a combination will get split. The bars will get shipped in the handler bar box, and the grips would go into a post satchel.
Sometimes, we end up with orders, like yours, getting popped into a larger than necessary box.
Labcanary
One potato, two potato, click
I think they've used a third party warehouse for quite a while, they just didn't tell us. I expect the warehouse has a number of clients they store, pick and pack for. So they probably have set carton sizes to keep costs down and streamline the picking and packing.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
sounds like mtbd are using the robots of the future
Mattyp
Cows go boing
They definitely do, I've been to the warehouse as it's only 10mins away, to attempt to do a return, but they would not accept it. So I had to use Auspost and have it do a round-trip of Melbourne before they got it back.
pink poodle
気が狂っている男
They so have that annoying online form to fill in before making the returns
rockmoose
his flabber is totally gastered
A couple of weeks ago, I was shuffling some bits of scaffold around my shed. Skimmed the drivers window of my fj45 with the undesired outcome.
I work with cubing algorithms. For books it mostly works pretty accurately but you get outlier shapes like posters and it becomes a pain. Making two cartons or two completely separate shipments costs more, getting a massively oversized box might sound silly but is often the most effective way. Last thing you want is a packing plan that requires items to go in a certain order and orientation and the picker spends too long on it and ends up scanning a 2nd box in anyway
indica
Serial flasher
P0090 - Fuel pressure regulator 1 control circuit
C12102_R/H/R wheel speed sensor invalid.
beeb
Dr. Beebenson, PhD HA, ST, Offset (hons)
Has this thing been aftermarket-tuned, or is it just a lemon? Weird to have so many codes so early in a vehicle's life...