Rate My Package

[undyingking]

I just noticed, on a recent Amazon packet, that it included the invitation to "Rate this packaging", at www.amazon.co.uk/packaging. Intrigued, I investigated further. It seems you can rate it from for degree of protection afforded, for appropriateness of size, and for ease of opening; and you can add freeform comments and even upload photos (of your delighted face as you rip the box open. Or possibly of the dreadful gash it made on your thumb.)
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Comments

[lucyas.livejournal.com]

I once complained about rubbish packaging for an Amazon item (loose in a plastic bag and as a result got damaged in the post). The reply I got was that Amazon makes sure all the packaging it uses is suitable for the purpose. Now I suspect the item may have come loose from its original packaging and been put in the bag by the post office, but I have no evidence that was the case and there was no post office sticker to say that had been done. I would have hoped Amazon would have looked into the matter, but all I got was a brush off.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Bah, that's pretty poor.

[lucyas.livejournal.com]

I wasn't impressed. It also seemed rather out of character for Amazon, which has at other times given me excellent service.