EEVblog #146 - Digikey Postage FAIL

[Lance]

Well that was...random. Definitely met my "what the crap" quota for the day.

Say Dave, how much do those things cost? You can mail it to me if you're not doing anything with it.

[Psi]

hah yeah, i think they've been doing that for a while, i got one many months ago in the same kind of sack

They just seem to post them out at random, i never ordered/paid for one.

[mikeselectricstuff]

This is why it came in a sack - there is a low-cost mail service aimed at people sending bags of mail, called M-Bag :
http://www.usps.com/international/mbags.htm

[Bored@Work]

This is why it came in a sack - there is a low-cost mail service aimed at people sending bags of mail, called M-Bag :
http://www.usps.com/international/mbags.htm

Yes, but the idea is that you bundle mail to the same destination (e.g. Dave's employer) into one bag, instead of putting each catalog in an own bag. I don't think one or two more catalogs in the same bag would have exceeded the weight limit.

[EEVblog]

Or just send the bloody thing as-is like sensible people do, because it was already wrapped and had the address on it!

Dave.

[mikeselectricstuff]

Or just send the bloody thing as-is like sensible people do, because it was already wrapped and had the address on it!

Dave.

But I think that due to the often archaic way the mail service works, putting it in a bag like this makes it cheaper to send. 

[Lance]

Or just send the bloody thing as-is like sensible people do, because it was already wrapped and had the address on it!

Dave.

Look at the bright side. Now you have an awesome sack to put stuff in!

[Uncle Vernon]

Ah the component catalogue, a 2000+ page device for raising computer monitors to eye height. Same with the yellow pages, it amazes me why they continue to print on the centre pages when the only remaining corporate value is a company logo on the spine displayed beneath every monitor.

I witnesses a recent office relocation in Sydney's CBD where the good folks in the office environment committee (yes every floor of CBD financiers needs an environment committee) outlawed phone books and the like from their new digs. The stationary cabinet was raided for weeks where two or three full reams of fresh copy paper was seconded until ever monitor in the office was at a comfortable level.