Comment by kortex
3 years ago
What's wrong with mcmaster's packaging? Every time I've ordered, it's been plastic ziplocks or carboard boxes in a main box stuffed with brown paper. That's about as minimal as you can get.
If you have a problem with that, well, I have some bad news about how commerce, medical, and industry go about wastage in general. Bought 1000' of foobar filler rod and only used 50'? Chuck the rest cause it'll cost more in labor to deal with the excess.
Maybe they have changed, I'll admit it has been a few years. But I would routinely get a gigantic box that was 99% empty space. For example, I ordered ~8 feet of a specific brass rod (~1/4 inch diameter). Instead of a tube they used a rectilinear box that was big enough to fit a human inside.