Abraham Lincoln once observed that calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg, which seems to apply perfectly to this situation:
Surely, the real reason boils down to:
- A warehouse full of boxes with pre-cut hand holes
- A stack of returns due to guys poking their hands too far into the boxes
- A desire to disallow said returns
I bet they pick up the box that way, too.
The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning 