Last week I ordered a microSD memory card for my new phone, and yesterday the box from Amazon came. The box was a bit larger than I expected:
Unpacking the box, as expected, I found a bunch of packing material, some marketing inserts, the Amazon invoice, and the actual retail package containing the microSD card and its accessories:
All I really wanted, though, was the memory card itself:
(Yes, that’s a gigabyte of memory in a package smaller than a postage stamp.) Just for comparison, here it is again in the box it was shipped in, this time without any of the extraneous material:
If my math is correct, the box could actually have held over sixty thousand microSD cards. Couldn’t they have just stuck it in an envelope?
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Hilarious! You should send this into Consumer’s Report.
Patrick,
That was hilarious. Thanks for a great early morning laugh. I am sure to telly the story about that memory chip shipping box to many friends.
Best regards,
Mike
Ooops,
Sorry, Robert, I realized after posting that I had addressed the wrong name. Still just as funny, and you should explore having that piece published at some other places, too.
Very well done!
Mike
I’m curious: how much would that box weigh if it contained over sixty thousand microSD cards? And how much would Amazon charge you for it?
I told the UPS guy about it, and he says they are not very smart, because they are charged for the size of the box as well as the weight. But maybe Amazon has stock in the box company or even the carrier.
If that card weighs about 1/16 of an ounce, just multiply that by 60K to get 234 lbs (3750 ounces)
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