Takealot's big boxing problem

It is pretty amusing sometimes.
Order an LED strip and a USB charging cable. ... one day later....

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EDIT: In fact, just the other day I was browsing Takealot for a lekker moerse knife that looks like it can cut cardboard like butter.
I see what you did there Takealot.
 
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It's pretty obvious why. They do this to get around the Post Office's absurd claim to be the only entity legally allowed to deliver sub-1kg packages. While most of the smaller courier companies in my experience just simply ignore this regulation, bigger players like Takealot seem to use 1kg volumetric weight boxes for shipping smaller items to get around the regulation. Just a guess, but could explain why.
 
deweyzeph said:
It's pretty obvious why. They do this to get around the Post Office's absurd claim to be the only entity legally allowed to deliver sub-1kg packages. While most of the smaller courier companies in my experience just simply ignore this regulation, bigger players like Takealot seem to use 1kg volumetric weight boxes for shipping smaller items to get around the regulation. Just a guess, but could explain why.
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Nah this was an issue long before that came about.

This is just pure incompetence.

Same way they'll send a driver to your door day after day to collect a faulty product...when the fault is that you never received said product.

Or that they can't cancel an order before it has shipped.
 
I for one love the fact they put everything in boxes to protect your products.

Ordered a Hard drive once from Takealot was delivered on a bike without a box or plastic bubble wrap. Just a carton sleeve, that drive did not last long before I had to return it.
 
Now that they have started to use those three wheel rickshaws for delivering goods they will probably need to pack things more efficiently. There is not a lot of excess space inside them. https://www.mellowvans.com/

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The most extreme example of excess on a Takealot delivery that I had was when a large truck pulled up outside my place with my order. They opened the double doors at the back and there was this single small box sitting inside.
 
Perfect situation for mass automation, packing, loading, delivering of square boxes.
 
garyc said:
Now that they have started to use those three wheel rickshaws for delivering goods they will probably need to pack things more efficiently. There is not a lot of excess space inside them. https://www.mellowvans.com/

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The most extreme example of excess on a Takealot delivery that I had was when a large truck pulled up outside my place with my order. They opened the double doors at the back and there was this single small box sitting inside.
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What the... what is that going to deliver, ten pairs of slippers for mice?

Going to have to keep on going back to the center to get more packages.
 
The reason why they pack orders into separate boxes is because they group items by their location in the warehouse, it’s more efficient with less stock shrinkage risk to do that than trying to first consolidate an order into a single location before packing it into boxes. Takealot does take it to a ridiculous level, like 3 small items may get 3 separate boxes, they need to get those packing robots that run around the warehouse picking stocking.
 
I have gotten a laptop hard drive, 2 HDMI cables, and 2 HDMI to VGA converters, in a 40 liter box. Told the poor MisterD tupe, that my order was to small for that box, he just pointed to the sticker with my name on the side of box, and smiled.

Obviously nothing new to him.
 
Obieone said:
On a slightly different tack, I received a package recently from them which had two packets of coco pops inside along with the item I ordered, I think they used the coco pops as a sort of padding.
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I've had that twice already.
 
LCBXX said:
Some rando posted a tweet weeks ago asking Takealot about their boxes and suddenly there is a "big boxing problem"?

Please.
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They have a big box problem. A laptop hard drive, 2 HDMI cables, and 2 HDMI to VGA converters, in a 40 liter box?
 
Jan said:
Takealot box problem

South Africa's biggest online retailer — Takealot — has developed an amusing reputation for its overuse of boxes.

However, the issue has raised some more serious questions about its packing efficiencies and environmental priorities.
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I raised this a few times. It's absurd. You order two small items and they arrive in three boxes.

Amazon here in the UK at least makes sure those two items would be in the same box. Or no box at all, and in their retail packaging if you wish.
 
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