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The new Amazon packaging change.

swingaloo · 2025-10-20 19:44:27

Just seen the ad on tv from Amazon showing how they are now going to use 50% less packaging and showing the delivery person passing boxes to customers. As the items are now just in the original boxes making it obvious what the contents are I would imagine it it going to be a nightmare if parcels are left on doorsteps etc.…

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molerat Posts: 35,688 Forumite

21 October 2025 at 6:12PM

Blackbriar_040 said:
I had read some similar stories of people having ordered large LEGO sets, and Amazon sent them in the original boxes with the despatch sticker stuck on them and the box itself completely trashed!

I think it is Smyths Toys that send out Lego in a perfect fit mailing outer, I assume stock is supplied that way by the manufacturer.

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