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Product packaging
I just bought a new pump for my goldfish pond. Tried to open the clear plastic packaging and found that I needed a tin snips to get it open!!! What is the deal with this bomb proof packaging? So many things now come in this overboard stuff. I can't see the need for this much protection. Even the Beef Jerky pack that is "easy open" with the reclosable pack takes a knife to get it open! I still blame a lot of it on that Tylenol poisoner years ago that caused all the "tamper proof" #$%&*. Thanks for letting me vent!
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From: Southern Louisiana
Originally Posted by Torque1st
Why can't they make the plastic parts for cars like trim and door panels as tough as that plastic they use for game etc packaging? 
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bigdaddy: I got you there. I had the great task of unstrapping all those tie wraps from the grandchildren's gifts this past Xmas . As you said it takes longer to unwrap them for use than the kids interest lasts. Except for the one grandson's 9 piece construction set which still seems popular .
I already mentioned this oil company conspiricy to overpack everything we buy in plastic 9 times bigger than the product and requiring you to buy tools to open them on the Gas Price thread where we were bashing the producers a bit .
I already mentioned this oil company conspiricy to overpack everything we buy in plastic 9 times bigger than the product and requiring you to buy tools to open them on the Gas Price thread where we were bashing the producers a bit .
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I agree. You have to have a circular saw to cut the package open on 90% of stuff
They should know that using all the material can not be good on there wallet or the enviroment.
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greasemonkey:Have you ever known the big gas and oil companies to be concerned about anything but selling their product and retaining a monopoly on
the market . This all started back in the Rockerfeller days for the US production .
We called the oil companies environmental and health and safety programs the COA programs . In other words a paper trail to "cover our ash" in the event of any trouble .
Ever try to sneak a muffin from one of those new fangled plastic cases they now sell so many things in when on a midnight grazing romp without waking everyone in the house up . Not going to happen , ask the wife .
the market . This all started back in the Rockerfeller days for the US production .
We called the oil companies environmental and health and safety programs the COA programs . In other words a paper trail to "cover our ash" in the event of any trouble .
Ever try to sneak a muffin from one of those new fangled plastic cases they now sell so many things in when on a midnight grazing romp without waking everyone in the house up . Not going to happen , ask the wife .
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From: Drummonds, TN USA
Building a better mouse trap is a long lost issue - I think the people who actually worry about things like that sold all of their rights for their ideas to the "PACKAGING" people...
QED: Turn a mouse loose on it - that sucker will get in there RIGHT AWAY!
(No kidding!!!)
~Wolf
PS: What a lucrative industry to get into...
QED: Turn a mouse loose on it - that sucker will get in there RIGHT AWAY!
(No kidding!!!)
~Wolf
PS: What a lucrative industry to get into...
Last edited by Greywolf; Mar 20, 2005 at 09:02 AM.
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Originally Posted by Jerry Gougeon
bigdaddy: I got you there. I had the great task of unstrapping all those tie wraps from the grandchildren's gifts this past Xmas . As you said it takes longer to unwrap them for use than the kids interest lasts. Except for the one grandson's 9 piece construction set which still seems popular .
buy yourself a pair of mini diagonal wire cutters, the only way to get toys out without losing your sanity.
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From what I always understood, making plastic requires petroleum in some form. Makes you wonder about those days us older guys sat in those long lines back in the 70's trying to get gas because of the BS gas shortage but plastic products were flooding the market. Who's kiddin' who ? Not to get off subject, but back then I was driving a truck for a tire company and one of my stops was at a warehouse on the Brooklyn docks. I used to park the truck on the dock and eat my lunch so I could look out and see the Statue of Liberty. I would see lots of oil tankers sitting off shore riding real low in the water I assume, waiting to get into the Jersey refineries. I saw the same ships sitting there all week and partly into the next week, but there was no gas at the gas stations, Yeah Right !!