a funny story:
In a past life, the co. I worked for sold a 'moisture sensor' for concrete mixers (stationary, not the trucks) and this thing was a 4" dia x 10" stainless steel pipe with a suitable pipe flange attached. We are talking a tank of a thing, and just as heavy! A customer said they were having issues with theirs, so we asked them to return it. They did.
When it arrived, the box was barely holding together. it was just flattened cardboard & tape. (it was a square corrugated box) and inside was the sensor, wrapped in layers of what used to be bubble pack. It probably did some damage to the shipping system's conveyors & such as it went roiling & crashing about in this obviously inferior & beaten packing method.
We discovered two things that day:
- The sensors can survives being shipped by modern-day equipment & shippers
- Despite the extra printing on the box: "Save this box for returns" people obviously don't read.