I am a packer/picker, not for the cycle sector mind 😉
At our place, its all down to speed and accuracy, we have to pack anything from 2000-8000 lines a day.
With 80 staff on each shift, split 50/50 packing/picking its manic for my 8 hour shift.
Lost count the number of times I have bought a coffee at the start of the shift and not had time to finish it, lol
wwaswas, one of the reasons I see items packed like that, is cut off times, chances are they have to work to a fixed postal deadline to ship items, so if the packer has 25 items to pack and has 30min to cut off, they might have a line manager on their ass (common) to clear the delivery. So if the correct sized box runs out, they don’t have time to collect fresh stock, so they oversize the box.
Yes its wrong, but getting the stock out on time and correct is king.
[edit] LOL, just had a text from my work, my shift is starting 3hrs early, they are expecting 40 pallets out today…..