Do they only have stupid size boxes at CRC?

I bought a hope drive side spacer the other day that you could fit in a matchbox or for postal ease, a jiffy bag. So i get a postie card saying he couldn’t deliver as its to big for my letter box.

Pick up saturday morning to be given a shoe box sized box with just the end cap in. Stupid!! I know post is free with them and i have no problem with it taking a couple of days, but why go over the top on the box size??!!

It’s their automated packing machine innit.

Having said that a few recent smaller purchases have been in jiffy bags so not quite sure who/what decides it.

Skiprat, i’ve had that box with two olives in!

Crazy

I’ve received a headset spacer in an a5 box before and a rear mech in a folded up plastic bag, so frig knows how it works.

My dad ordered a single cable end cap, and it came like this.

I can beat that Kato I had that box with 1 olive in!!!

…you guys must not use Amazon much, CRC have nothing on them for ridiculous boxes! 🙄

My Dad, who lives in France, ordered all his Christmas presents from them and sent them to us last year as they were coming to ours, our living room was like a sorting office!

Since the postal rates changed earlier this year it will cost CRC the same to send that box as it does a thick padded Jiffy bag. Therefore it makes sense for CRC to only purchase and deal with one type of packaging. Economies of scale and all that 🙂

Wiggle aren’t immune;

Its the hassle when the postie can’t deliver it and you having to collect from the sorting office.

Its cheaper for them to buy bulk packaging boxes than lots of different sizes. Cheaper to buy and cheaper to pack.

It does seem silly at first glance though!

Have you seen the new NEXT retailer ad? Where its highly automised? Its probably like that at CRC.

Funny you mention this here is on box my brake caliper shims came in other day, saying that you should have seen the size of the box my mountain morph pump arrived in

…on the plus side the kids love making castles, buses, space ships out of them 😀

My brakepad retaining spring came like this.

It’s all on here – http://vimeo.com/23284279 or here – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7iUtGcOn-c

I had a wheel box turn up with a pair of bars in and a pair of gloves.

I can see why they do it but you’d think they’d get another couple of smaller sizes.

I like that video.

Amazed to see my own order being packed. New Giro Xen on the way!

Just to redress the balance I usually buy odds’n’sods from CRC once or twice a week and they have not sent an inappropriately sized parcel for some time.

Jiffy bags and those un-rippable plastic bags but no big boxes.

Rather ironically my Renthal chainring that could have done with some “box type protection” came in a jiffy bag that was torn 🙄

looks like my headset spacer is on it’s way…

Has been extensively discussed, this. Cardboard boxes are cheap, recycled, and recyclable. Limiting the number of sizes reduces overheads.

They may have put a bit of thought into this you know 😉

Gotta go, the posties are here with my o-ring!

😆

Bah, I forgot to unclick the “Special Delivery” option for my new headset…

Yay, new jockey wheels are on their way…

The spoke nipple counting and packing machine is manouvered into position;

I ordered some new roadie tyres from fatbirds last week, they arrived in a wheel box! Surley they could have been folded up at least a little bit?

Wouldn’t be so bad if the box was sized so that it fit through a letterbox at it’s mininimum size (say VHS cassette sized) at least then small bits coudl get through.

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Powerlinks have been despatched..

Cardboard boxes are cheap, recycled, and recyclable.

Doesn’t the order of preference go “reduce, reuse, recycle”?

Perhaps they can recycle the time I’ve spent in the post office queue…

CRC add another spoke nipple to their collection of spoke nipples

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-rQ6Jay6w[/video]

brilliant thread 🙂

Replacement pedal pin coming into land!

Who ordered the track bolts?

[video]http://vimeo.com/23284279[/video]

ffs this has been discussed endless times. The bigger box actually saves on CO2 emissions – it’s not about the individual items, it’s the bigger picture. 20 of those boxes are much easier to stack and therefore more carbon efficient, than 20 random shaped objects.

Is it really such a big deal? Or would you rather they whack another £2 on everything and have it all hand packaged?

ffs this has been discussed endless times. The bigger box actually saves on CO2 emissions – it’s not about the individual items, it’s the bigger picture. 20 of those boxes are much easier to stack and therefore more carbon efficient, than 20 random shaped objects.

Is a van of empty air boxes carbon efficient being driven around. Or on a plane coming across the sea? Not being facetious. Just working out how that could be efficient.

The bigger box actually saves on CO2 emissions

Compared with 20 jiffy bags?

Don’t believe a word of it. Their packing machine is cheaper to run than human packers, so I can believe it’s cheaper, but not better for the environment.

Plus you have to account for the additional CO2 emissions from people travelling to post office depots to collect stuff that could have got through the letterbox in a jiffy bag.

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Personally I’m very worried about the “peak Jiffy bag” scenario. If more mail order companies move towards comically oversized cardboard packaging, my current Jiffy stockpiles will only last another 2-3 years at most. Then I’ll actually have to start buying the wretched things.