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We&#8217;d like to thank Fisher-Price, Mattel, Microsoft and Transcend for working with us in this effort &#8211; we truly appreciate it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>That packaging is generally driven by (a) anti-shoplifting measures and (b) consumers wanting to see the &#8220;live&#8221; toy inside the box, but stores don&#8217;t want it to actually fall out if the box. Neither of these apply to stuff people buy from Amazon, which now has the market leverage to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, for Amazon, it reduces shipping costs due to weight and size being reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I now have yet another reason buy stuff from Amazon.com, to wit, their new crusade against excess packaging and packaging that is nearly impossible to work through.&nbsp; I think we&#8217;ve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/22\/the_unopenable.html","url_meta":{"origin":13627,"position":0},"title":"The Unopenable Package","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-May-06 1:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Who needs to send our troops body armor? 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