Even though I'm local, I do sometimes have Rivendell ship orders to me. Like most of you, I'm a fan of the packaging efficiency. It was fun on the S24O this weekend to hear Jenny's thoughts about it. She thinks hard about how to get all your stuff SAFELY inserted into the smallest box possible. She talked about pack-jobs that turned out so well that she sought Robert out to show him before taping it shut. I also learned the secret that if you want to make any packing job much harder for Jenny, add a poster. She's straight up varsity at what she does.
Anyway, as it turns out, I had the need to order a few things from somebody other than Rivendell, and the box was waiting for me in my cubicle this morning. The box was huge. I went through the mental list of what all I had ordered. I opened the box, thinking that they must have accidentally sent me something large, but no. The fill fraction inside was just very very low. My items were not fragile, which is good because this box miserably failed the Riv Chica Warrior West shake test. My items were all there, perfectly intact and undamaged, so I'm not complaining, but I am also not exaggerating when I claim that the box Jenny would have used (or fashioned) would have had one sixth the volume of the box I received. The extra space was consumed by three sheets of crumpled brown paper. I don't know whether the quality of the packaging saves me money or costs me money. I don't know if it saves or costs Rivendell either. I also don't know for sure whether there's a huge reduction in materials that go into the recycling bin (although I'm pretty sure there is a reduction). What I do know is that it borders on art, getting a package from Rivendell, and that's pretty rare and pretty cool. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
