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February 25th, 2005

Poor Packaging Part Two

It’s been a while, but remember the poor packaging of the paperclips courtesy of buy.com? Well, here’s the follow-up, thanks to Dell.

At work over a two day period we got almost a dozen of these boxes addressed to former and current IT staffers (one former staffer alone got four of them):

Dell Box

It looks important and has a “DELL SECURITY ADVISORY” stamped on it and USPS tracking. I figured, perhaps it’s just an overly wrapped CD.

Nope. This is what was inside:

Dell Letter

A single piece of paper.

Pretty darn wasteful, Dell.

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