best buy packaging - Best Buy Mails Tiny Photo Paper in Massive Box

Get our top stories

follow gizmodo

Best Buy Mails Tiny Photo Paper in Massive Box

How much packaging is necessary to ship a small package of 4"x6" photo paper, Best Buy?

Let's put it this way. If our reader had ordered two packs of photo paper, the world's rainforests would be but a pile of sawdust, plus enough air would be trapped within plastic polyair bubbles to make a simple walk around the block into a death-defying Everest summit.

Instead, the Earth chooses to kill us slowly, having deemed the prospect of a swift, global-scale execution too painless. [Thanks Jeromy!]

UPDATE from the tipster: "I ordered a printer from Bestbuy, and the paper came free with the order. I do not make it a practice to buy paper in small quantities online, as it is generally not cost effective, but when it was free, I thought "what the hell."

Contact Mark Wilson:
Follow best buy packaging on Gizmodo
The Gadget Guide
More Stories…