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The New Hotness

  • Amazon Packaging: Grease Cartridge

    I knew this would happen, so I made sure to not order anything that could possibly arrive at the same time:

    Grease cartridge - casual packaging
    Grease cartridge – casual packaging

    I’ll apply the grease by hand, so the fact the cartridge cannot fit into a piston-fed gun doesn’t matter:

    Grease cartridge - cap damage
    Grease cartridge – cap damage

    I recently placed one order for a BFW and another for four small bottles, all of which arrived in a single box with a thoroughly flattened air pillow strip. Fortunately, the bottles were plastic and survived unscathed, but I’m sure it got ugly in there.

    Given that one order for multiple items has arrived in three different boxes on two different days, it’s exceedingly difficult to work around Amazon’s corporate-level indifference for safe packaging.