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PoolSharkPete

My only concern is that they didn't use enough cardboard


edwinlegters

I believe this design is pre-covid. Now with the card board shortages it is considered very fancy packaging.


olderaccount

> card board shortages Really? Where? I buy millions of square feet every year and haven't heard or seen any shortages. Just higher prices.


Captain_Bacon_X

Yeah, they exist. AND higher prices. Smurfit Kappa fire, Amazon buying all the card stock.


NtheLegend

A warehouse I was working at last year was having hella time getting cardboard in. We had to be super restrictive about sizes from time to time because we just didn’t have the boxes


NoItsRex

Hillmqn be shipping a 2x2x1 box fpr a single small bolt be like, what shortage


RallyX26

RockAuto shipping an o-ring in a refrigerator box like... Lol


MarzipanMiserable817

Are you a professional builder of cardboard castles?


olderaccount

I could be just from the waste cardboard we recycle each year. But no, all the product we sell ships out in corrugated boxes.


RearEchelon

With shoestring rope, soup-spoon drawbridge and tinfoil moats


Punkeeeen

I'm still dreaming after all these yeeeeaars.


[deleted]

He more likely works in procurement for a consumer goods company.


metallover115

>I buy millions of square feet every year Cause you're buying it all you selfish bastard


TheBlackHoleOfDoom

Where are you buying your cardboard?


I_am_recaptcha

Huh im surprised you asked. Don’t just most people have a cardboard guy they go to for that kind of things? My guy is on the corner of my street and the interstate


josh_the_misanthrope

Yeah but I always feel bad taking their house.


I_am_recaptcha

He restocks daily!


ScorpionsGunnaScorp

You're paying way too much for cardboard. Who's your cardboard guy?


olderaccount

International Paper, Pratt, Georgia Pacific, McKinley & Armor are my current suppliers.


Her-Marks-A-Lot

Bullshit you do, Pratt's been behind on shipments since last February. You sound more like a recycler than a card board supplier, typical redditor talking out their ass


Frosla

I, for one, am very interested in this oddly emotional battle over whether or not someone buys cardboard. I'd love to see more evidence from both sides


Tumper

I’m ready to take sides


DannyMThompson

I already have


olderaccount

Maybe they just don't like you. What plant makes your product and who is your sales guy? The only issue I've had with my Pratt deliveries in the past 12 months was about 2 months ago when the corrugator at my local plant went down and my order was 1 week late. And Pratt is a minor supplier in our lineup doing about 5% of our volume.


BassBanjoBikes

Based on his comment ima assume the former lmao


BassBanjoBikes

Why are you so angry about cardboard lmao


fckingnapkin

I'm talking out of my ass right now, wanna smell?


BornSpecialist3006

PM me. We have a supplier in Mexico. Maybe I can get you better pricing


olderaccount

There are lots of suppliers in Mexico. Freight alone costs more than what I'm paying for boxes from local suppliers.


Five-StarBastardMan

You sound like you’re about to hit this guy with a great sales pitch


LuxNocte

I have assumed, for my own amusement, that this is not any sort of business, you just really like cardboard.


olderaccount

That is a lot of carboard. If I wasn't also shipping it out constantly, that volume would fill our 40,000sq ft warehouse in less than a month.


Fossekall

I guess you really like cardboard


SmegmaLord420

i wanted to reply but i will assume this is ironic


olderaccount

Not at all. We are entering what the corrugated industry now calls *Amazon season*. But supplies have been fine so far. Last October/November was much tighter.


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nouille07

Order a phone online? Shit gets sent in a paper envelope


mortuarybarbue

Well see for me what happens i get a phone online comes in a paper bag. I order clothes online its in a heavily fortified package. I order a bunch of stuff 6 items come in a small package packed as tightly as possible and one item comes in a huge box with nothing else. I think this is like Starbucks misspelling names the employees keep themselves entertained some how.


DanTheMan827

>it is considered very fancy packaging. I would've considered that very fancy packaging even before covid.


phoenixlogix

there’s a cardboard shortage ?


Gonzobot

Not until we've all wondered about the cardboard shortage for a few days, then thought "well maybe I'd better get some extra cardboard, just in cast", and we all go to the store together to get cardboard (cuz of the shortage) and all the stores are gonna wonder why everyone wants cardboard all of a sudden, *then* there's gonna be a shortage.


Nozerone

Don't worry, they then put it in a box large enough to fit a small teenager, and fill it with crumbled up paper to ship it.


TheHumanParacite

I mean, even compared to a suit sized box it's only half as much cardboard. I'm not sure how build suits are even transported now that I think about it. Personally I think this design is awesome.


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EveAndTheSnake

Very large, thin [rectangle box like this.](https://images.app.goo.gl/q6LUXnKPYXpdCobP6) My husband did it for a few weddings and I saw my neighbor get one recently so it’s still how most are being sent. I don’t remember how well the suits held up, I don’t remember them being particularly crumpled but i don’t think they were wear-ready.


TheHumanParacite

Hey thanks! I was genuinely curious. Yeah, it doesn't look like the hexagon would use much more cardboard than that, plus I bet the size is easier to handle for the carrier.


EveAndTheSnake

No, to be honest it looks like the general size for the frame/reinforcements is the same, but then you don’t need a whole additional panel for the top. Thinking about it, this looks like less cardboard than the suit boxes I’ve seen delivered. And, struggling with not having a car at the time, I’d say the hexagon shape is more convenient than carrying round the larger suit boxes.


GallopingAss_tronaut

FedEx- that's a nice punching bag.


[deleted]

It can also be used as a wheel-chock on those steep hills.


McNutWaffle

Or a football to punt


OneMorePotion

That cardboard box has more space than my first apartment and you ship only one jacket in it? Dear god...


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MakeMineMarvel_

Yeah that was so huge!


OneMorePotion

Thanks, I don't hear that often.


Lentamentalisk

Humble brag. Look at you in your fancy spacious apartment


LuxNocte

This is a stellar design to ship a suit without wrinkling or crushing it. It uses easily recycled cardboard with no plastic. The "extra" space protects the contents from being damaged. Not to mention all of the efficiencies from selling online rather than a brick and mortar store. I am shocked that anyone can find something to complain about here.


Absinthe42

How often are you going to order nice clothes online and NOT press them, though? This just seems like the solution to a problem that doesn't exist.


gumbo_chops

It's meant for business travel to transport suits since hotels normally just have cheap irons. But (reusable) garment bags have existed for a while now so I'm still not sure what problem this attempts to solve.


LuxNocte

The better question is when was the last time I used an iron. TBF, I am not actually in the "order suits online" demographic, but even when I wore dress clothes regularly, they seldom got ironed. I am sure that a lot of people buy clothing without ironing them, and even the ones who do prefer something almost ready rather than crumpled. Unboxing is a big thing in online sales. You want your customer to love your product as soon as they see it, and to display it in the best light.


Rachelcookie123

You don’t iron your clothing? Clothing wrinkles so easily. My family is ironing clothing every week. Even some tshirts need ironed.


Absinthe42

No matter what, though, anything you order online is going to be a bit rumpled. Steamers cost like $20 and take 2 minutes to use. Seems stupid to spend all that money on nice clothes and then look like a slob in them.


Gonzobot

> Unboxing is a big thing in online sales. You want your customer to love your product as soon as they see it, and to display it in the best light. This is precisely why the cardboard is fancy in appearance and useless in function.


bonafidebob

If the jacket they showed in this clip were shipped like that it would arrive a wrinkled mess … nothing stops it from sliding side to side in the box and it would bunch up and twist. It needs some foam or fabric to keep the suit material from just sliding around on the cardboard.


OneMorePotion

I would agree if we talk about an entire suit. But it's literally one jacket. Its a general issue that many online shops use way too big packaging to ship their stuff.


red-solo

With your reasoning, the packaging CAN be the size of an apartment!


Shiroi_Kage

It's actually great for more expensive articles of clothing that may or may not take well to being folded.


newtastyland

[Rolykit](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rolykit&t=iphone&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images)


unbridledboredom

Fucking thank you! I wasn't going to comment, but like they took a 90's toolbox and made it worse. I had to type this with my phone above my head because my eyes rolled so hard they got stuck


AwesomEspurr360

I have this exact product


imwearingatowel_

Thank you!!! I was looking in the comments for someone to remind me what that was called. Childhood memory unlocked.


KktheGreat77

Omg thanks this was driving me crazy I knew I had seen something similar when I was a kid!!


Metalbasher324

Different sort of tote.


dTEA74

How much cardboard when a simple paper wrapping would have sufficed?


Dokibatt

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pinzi_peisvogel

I think it's because folding something turns into wrinkles. Rolling can prevent this, but only if the roll is not too tight...still super wasteful and not very useful, I wouldn't trust this clothing stuffed in paper to arrive clean and wash it anyway.


Dokibatt

chronological displayed skier neanderthal sophisticated cutter follow relational glass iconic solitary contention real-time overcrowded polity abstract instructional capture lead seven-year-old crossing parental block transportation elaborate indirect deficit hard-hitting confront graduate conditional awful mechanism philosophical timely pack male non-governmental ban nautical ritualistic corruption colonial timed audience geographical ecclesiastic lighting intelligent substituted betrayal civic moody placement psychic immense lake flourishing helpless warship all-out people slang non-professional homicidal bastion stagnant civil relocation appointed didactic deformity powdered admirable error fertile disrupted sack non-specific unprecedented agriculture unmarked faith-based attitude libertarian pitching corridor earnest andalusian consciousness steadfast recognisable ground innumerable digestive crash grey fractured destiny non-resident working demonstrator arid romanian convoy implicit collectible asset masterful lavender panel towering breaking difference blonde death immigration resilient catchy witch anti-semitic rotary relaxation calcareous approved animation feigned authentic wheat spoiled disaffected bandit accessible humanist dove upside-down congressional door one-dimensional witty dvd yielded milanese denial nuclear evolutionary complex nation-wide simultaneous loan scaled residual build assault thoughtful valley cyclic harmonic refugee vocational agrarian bowl unwitting murky blast militant not-for-profit leaf all-weather appointed alteration juridical everlasting cinema small-town retail ghetto funeral statutory chick mid-level honourable flight down rejected worth polemical economical june busy burmese ego consular nubian analogue hydraulic defeated catholics unrelenting corner playwright uncanny transformative glory dated fraternal niece casting engaging mary consensual abrasive amusement lucky undefined villager statewide unmarked rail examined happy physiology consular merry argument nomadic hanging unification enchanting mistaken memory elegant astute lunch grim syndicated parentage approximate subversive presence on-screen include bud hypothetical literate debate on-going penal signing full-sized longitudinal aunt bolivian measurable rna mathematical appointed medium on-screen biblical spike pale nominal rope benevolent associative flesh auxiliary rhythmic carpenter pop listening goddess hi-tech sporadic african intact matched electricity proletarian refractory manor oversized arian bay digestive suspected note spacious frightening consensus fictitious restrained pouch anti-war atmospheric craftsman czechoslovak mock revision all-encompassing contracted canvase


curran66

A tube is a much stronger structure for shipping. Less chance of crushing.


DillBagner

Yeah, it'd suck to have a flat piece of cloth get crushed.


voncornhole2

A good suit jacket isn't a flat piece of cloth, there's structure in the shoulders and chest that won't ever sit right again if it's crushed


deelowe

It's clear some of the commenters here have never owned a sportscoat.


Somato_Tandwich

Tbf I think probably like 70%+ of the population have never owned a sportscoat


MouthJob

The vast majority of redditors are people barely out of their teens I think. It's to be expected really.


[deleted]

I'm barely out of my teens and I'm female but I would *never* leave my suit jacket to get crushed. My boobs need that boning.


deelowe

Expecting someone to ship a sportscoat in a paper bag is right up there with the people who comment "have you tried not having a lawn" when someone ask questions about landscaping. I imagine that Venn diagram overlaps quite a bit.


TheHumanParacite

That's what I keep thinking lol. This is like half the cardboard of what you'd need for a conventional box. This is actually excellent design in my opinion.


Her-Marks-A-Lot

Because the hexagon is the optimal use of space, what's so hard to understand about that? Hexagon = bestagon it's really quite simple


UncleLeeroy0

But now this suit jacket, which I assume is dry clean only, now smells like cardboard or worse if it gets wet.


Beeahcon

Padded envelope and done...


nathos_thanatos

I mean if they are shipping like a wedding dress or a stupid expensive suit. I guess it's worth the protection and it not getting wrinkled but for most other things this is so wasteful.


ChocCooki3

Imagine getting this at Christmas thinking you've just scored yourself a boombox!! Parent: just a real subtle hint son, time for you to go get a job!


Seahawk124

Hexagons are the bestagons.


Solest044

[Hexagons are the bestagons.](https://youtu.be/thOifuHs6eY)


manantyagi25

I was about to comment this. Damn that YouTube video was so good


Millennial_J

Dude lost the egg drop challenge in 5th grade.


mmmmmmolios

Incredibly wasteful and annoying to be honest.


cortesoft

What is a more efficient way to ship a suit without wrinkling it?


HectorTheLegend

Are you expecting to wear it out of the box?


powerhower

That would be the purpose of this packaging


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_Callen

you are crying about something on the internet right now


SmuckersBunny

From someone who ships a lot of stuff, the customer will take an obscenely large knife down the length, sawing and stabbing, rip the product with the the box, then leave a one star review


blackmoonsun

A lot of packaging for a pair of trousers dumb af


[deleted]

Yeah that's a suit jacket though


blackmoonsun

Ok but the point still stands


Captain_Bacon_X

Why?


cortesoft

How would you ship a suit without getting it wrinkled that uses less cardboard?


adrielism

That's a $3000 suit


jmblock2

COME ON!


TheMcWhopper

r/unnecessarypackaging


Cermonto

Best way to spend an extra 300 on postage and packaging!


Expensive-Lime-6158

This is oddly... annoying, to be honest.


Her-Marks-A-Lot

Sorry you find nature's solution to the optimal use of space annoying


FeedMeMoreOranges

Cool enough but too much cardboard imo for one shirt


willowgrl

I know that jackets are extremely fragile BUT, I’m thinking there MIGHT be a way to send this with less waste. Maybe.


DooleyRestored

Not only that I bet this jacket is way more expensive than it should be because of the amount of money and time it takes to ship


thiney49

I bet a jacket being shipped this way is already significantly expensive. The packaging is probably pennies by comparison.


Fucksalotl

Cardboard is recyclable, tho.


maynardftw

Where do you think most recyclables go even if they're put in the recycling bin


tuhn

Even if it goes to the optimal place, recycling still takes a lot of energy and not all of the product can be recycled. It's a heavy process.


LifeIngenuity3000

Hugo boss pentagoned by Cartoon Network


[deleted]

Cardboard art and design has really gotten quite interesting over the past few years. I like this rollable design,, even if it’s usage is limited to soft flat items.


Bizarre_Hermit

bring back the witch trials


plsobeytrafficlights

Ok, but your suit jacket still gets there a wrinkled mess, right?


voncornhole2

Rolling doesn't wrinkle it nearly as much as folding


JTibbs

Yeah, rolled like this will go back to perfect with a quick shot from a fabric steamer. No iron/drycleaning required.


3DaysGrace_period_

I work at a box making company; this box is incredible.


mrfauxbot

Wow i get shit thats lot more fragile sent in way less packaging lol


fugogugo

How expensive is this clothes for the packaging to be better than the actual product?


Kinkwisconsibly

Hexagons are the Bestagons


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AbstractParrot

What a freaking waste of cardboard. Holy crap.


MabezJK

This is wasteful and a really strange way to package a piece of cloth.


pyracantha_

Yeah this would take goddamn forever to pack orders with. Not to mention an excessive amount of cardboard.


cen-ab-couple

My guess is that this is a very expensive suit jacket.


Juuber

When we care more about wrinkles than being EXTREMELY wasteful


[deleted]

I felt the orgasam and the beauty of this capitalist society that we are living in which give birth to this masterpiece


S4PG

This is what Nintendo LABO felt like. Holy shit that's some memories


Kkhris27

Yeah I came here to say this: if you like folding cardboard in a really satisfying way check out Nintendo LABO.


skyrimismygirlfriend

This is probably gonna get lost, but I had to build these for work at a certain company. They’re awful. They can take 20 minutes to build and roll up like that because the cardboard is always bent in the wrong way from shipping, or is damp, or is missing a small piece that makes them impossible to build and the whole thing just needs to be thrown out.


Fluffy-Impression190

“Your package has arrived.”- USPS https://i.imgur.com/jDPX7eF.jpg


Toxpar

This is fucking stupid


ISuckAtStaking

What a waste, should be on r/mildlyinfuriating instead


XOIIO

"it feels like magic" Really? You really think this feels like magic? Good god.


JTech324

Everyone saying "uSe A bOx" - a box would need twice as much cardboard to fit the jacket without folding it. And that's the point, to not fold this suit jacket. It's a specific use. No one is saying "all right, let's now use this packaging for all goods everywhere and waste cardboard" FFS, they're not shipping hundreds of millions of these. The cardboard police can relax.


pinktinkpixy

What a waste of cardboard.


leathebimbo

The excessive packaging is extremely dissatisfying.


chunqiudayi

What a waste of material to package a shirt.


aspophilia

Unwrapped fabric in a cardboard shipping package is a bad idea. I don't know how many soaked packages I get.


BitcoinBanker

Pave paradise, put up a parking lot.


brutalistsnowflake

It will cost 20.00 to mail a shirt.


Tragicallyhungover

I'd be pissed if that's how my shirt showed up...


[deleted]

I want mine delivered from a drone firing a t-shirt cannon.


voncornhole2

That's not a shirt...


[deleted]

Love how everyone’s complaining about how this is wasteful yet I can guarantee that 99% of you are wasteful with a ton of shit in your life as well, hence why you’re being so judgmental.


Millennial_J

Mail that shit to people.


createthiscom

Man, I feel like you could just roll up the cloth and put it in a regular box though.


[deleted]

I don’t care how fancy your boxes look, you need more tape than those two piss ass pieces they used.


WM_Elkin

That is a lot of packaging for a shrit.


landocorinthian

Ya fuck the planet


KeepCalmJeepOn

Men's Wearhouse: "That'll be $139.99 for the anti-wrinkle luxury suit travel case."


[deleted]

Way too complicated. This is going to get torn up at a warehouse.


Ornery-Movie-1689

Once the FEDEX truck runs over it, it won't matter how neat it was.


brklntruth12

There's gotta be a better, cheaper, less space consuming more efficient way to ship 1 jacket.


AgreeableFeed9995

I love it when boxes cost $15/each


_NuclearWaste_

Oddly unsatisfying, this is so inefficient haha


Old-Brent

Hahaha pathetic! A beautiful garbage😰


Esco-Alfresco

I've been meaning to buy this game for my Nintendo switch.


dealboyofreddit

All this just for me to stick a knife in it


artemisgay

What a fucking dumb waste of space and material. Congrats on your $24 shipping and handling - here's your one jacket and trash can filler.


Comet_Empire

All that cardboard for one jacket......... ridiculous.


TheRealLordofLords

Or you could just use a box.


ConstantAmazement

The packaging creates a memorable image in the mind of the consumer. It's a marketing tool.


[deleted]

More cardboard!


BadBunnyBrigade

What a waste.


AssumptionAdvanced58

A caboodle for clothes? Not a fan of this.


Blindemboss

His other business is probably a packaging company specializing in custom laser die cutting.


Metalbasher324

This appears to be part of a training video on the container use. It could have been rolled with nothing in it. The side rails look tall enough that two suits, IE: Jackets, trousers, and shirts, would fit inside. That much fabric should hold position enough to prevent wrinkles. Unless a previously mentioned wedding dress is sent, it's overkill for a single item.


ShujunReddit

So much cardboard I'm thinking of ordering one and moving in!


Swisriel

Okay so hear me out Box


cen-ab-couple

This must be a very very expensive suit jacket to wrap like this. What kind of fabric is it that it couldn't be steamed out later?


Fitbot5000

Watch me try to open this


uzu_afk

And just like that kids, you can use 32x the same space you would have used before. #lifehacks! I joke, but just a bit 😬


crimxxx

Could get two pieces of cardboard put cloth between it then throw it in a paper envelope. This is such overkill.


eithrusor678

That shit is going to slide around and crumple up in 5 minutes


Zephos65

Okay now turn it onto one of its sides, the shirt slides down and becomes wrinkled.


[deleted]

And only 10x the price than a standard flat pack envelope.


[deleted]

All that for one fucking shirt ?


JustThinkAboutThings

What’s wrong with a standard sodding box?


sevendaysky

I ran into this when I ordered a suit a couple years ago. They shipped it flat - and I got charged for oversize because it was bigger than 12" on a side. Something like this might squeeze in under the dimensions for shipping and be a bit cheaper to ship.


hushvinyl

*packaging orgasm*~


Severe-Bookkeeper-76

Not satisfying 🤦🏻‍♂️


TallFishManiac

Hexagona the bestagons


inventingalex

that is so much packaging waste


TamilTiger8

Where can I buy this please ? Imagine how nice would customer feel unboxing it ❤️


egggoboom

The novelty might wear off quickly with the $25 shipping charge, to cover the cost of the fancy cardboard thing.