HP Excessive Packaging: Power Cord Shipped with Pallet

Here is an amazing example of excessive packaging that if accurate would take the cake for the most egregious example we've seen.  

An Australia-based user, on the popular site Notebookreview.com claims that HP delivered a power cord, complete with a wooden pallet. The user provided photos they took of the excessive packaging.

via cnet asia

Comments

[Peter Warnock]

I believe it. A company overnighted parts to us in a gigantic box, when a padded mailer would have sufficed:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pwarnock/3705180581/

[Randy Vanveer]

I own a pallet recycling company and see a lot of other companies
dump their used pallets into their dumpsters or compactors. This is a
waste of a perfectly good used resource. Plastic pallets can be melted
down to create other products. They do not deteriorate in landfills at
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