Many, MANY years ago (like 40) I ordered a bunch of chips from Avnet. In that order were something like 25 74LS04 chips.
These came in ** 22 ** separate packages, shipped from 22 different branches. I called up and complained, as the shipping charges were 10 X the cost of the parts. They credited me the shipping charges. It was fairly obvious somebody was trying to make me "go away" as I was a very small customer. No WAY they would only have one or 2 of these totally common parts per branch. Whoever did this didn't know, however, that my business partner was a manager at Avnet.
Jon