We live in an age of unparalleled convenience, where practically anything—food, makeup, clothes, or even the latest iPhone—can arrive at our doorstep in hours or a few short days.

As impressive as it is, this efficiency comes at a huge cost for the planet. Deliveries are often shipped in absurdly wasteful packaging: massive boxes stuffed with plastic wrap, layers of foam, and heaps of shredded paper for something as small as a pair of earrings. This practice has become so common that people online are now sharing photos of their over-packaged orders, exposing just how ridiculous it can get.

Below, we’ve rounded up some of the most egregious examples. Scroll down to see for yourself!

#1 17-Inch Box For A 2-Inch Item, Including Whole Printed Spiel That It Was “Thoughtfully Packaged” To “Reduce Impact”

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#2 Just Got A Pair Of Headphones, Why Is The Box So Big

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#3 Individually Wrapped Lemon Slices

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#4 This Box Was For One Little Ds Game

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#5 Ordered 5 Nail Polishes From Amazon

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#6 Thanks Tesla! All This Packaging For A USB Drive

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#7 All Of This For One Purse. (Cat For Scale)

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#8 This Tin Of Individually Wrapped Assorted Jelly Beans I Got As A Gift

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#9 Christmas Present. A Box With Plastic Lid, Six Useless Cups, 6 Plastic Lids… All For 6 Little Sachets Of Hot Chocolate/Coffee

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#10 Got My Battery Today From Amazon. They Didn’t Even Add Bubble Wrap Or Craft Paper

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#11 Way Too Much Packaging For Some Batteries ?‍♂️

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#12 All This Plastic For A Single Cough Drop

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#13 All This Plastic For Just 5 Toothbrush Heads

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#14 Since Oranges Don’t Have A Natural Packaging

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#15 All For One Book

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#16 “Gift Of Nothing” Is The Gift Of Egregious Packaging

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#17 A Single Circular Barbell (Butter Knife For Scale)

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#18 Not Sure What The Point Of The Plastic Wrapping Is… What A Waste

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#19 The Forks At Buffalo Wild Wings

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#20 Why

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#21 Two Sleeves Of Pills Came In The Box Of 10

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#22 This Is The Packaging For 8 Serving Utensils From Crate And Barrel. (Banana For Scale)

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#23 Included A Lipstick In A Target Pick-Up Order. They Said It Was Out Of Stock Locally, But They Could Mail Me One

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#24 My Chef Saved $2.50/300 Units If They Come Individually Wrapped. So I Spent The First Hour Of My Shift Unwrapping Them

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#25 The Box And What It Was Used For. Ordered From An Ink Supplier

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#26 Change Wiper Blades On Two Vehicles And Win This Pile Of Bs!

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#27 Hannaford Supermarket Hoping To Sell You *a* Donut

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#28 Some Sort Of Chip My Coworker Received

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#29 47,785ml Of Packaging For 5.4ml Of Product. These Boxes All Came From The Same Warehouse Together

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#30 A Little Bottle And A Tiny Other Thing

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#31 Pixy Stix

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#32 Some Anti-Egregiouspackaging? I Mean, Thanks, But A Little Discretion Would Have Been Appreciated

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#33 A Specific Carton Just For A Single Egg

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#34 Icy Hot

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#35 Nutrisystem Pizza

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#36 Forgot About This Gem…this Was 12 Years Ago But I Believe That Was About An 18-In Ruler And It Was Absolutely The Only Thing In That Box

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#37 Ordered 2 Knives From Crate And Barrel…

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#38 Too Much Package For 3 ‘Gourmet’ Cookies. Found At Sams Club

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#39 This Needlessly Large Packaging For A 20mm Sized Micro Sd Card

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#40 4 Bars Individually Packed. Packed In Pairs. Packed In 2 Packs Of Pairs. ???

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#41 A Presentation Case For A Single Tube Of Toothpaste. It’s Recyclable, Forgetting That They Could Just Not

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#42 Now With More Box!

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#43 “Eco Friendly” Soft Toys All Individually Wrapped In Single Use Plastic

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#44 Wait, Why Wrap Compostable Poo Bags In Plastic?

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#45 Individually Packaged Slices Of Bread

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#46 For Fuck’s Sake

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#47 All This For The Tiny USB Drive…

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#48 Arby’s Gave Me 4 Fry Containers

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#49 Giant Box To Ship Five 4×6 Photos

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#50 Somehow Both Too Much And Not Enough

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#51 The Tomato Aisle In My Local Grocery Store Made Me Sad

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#52 These Covid Tests From Costco. Five Per Box And You Cannot Fit A Second Box Into The Package

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#53 “Eco-Box” Wrapped In Plastic

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#54 Ridiculous

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#55 This Is Just Infuriating

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#56 Seen At Target – 2 Apple Slices X 6 Plastic Bags, In A Plastic Box

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#57 A Fanny Pack

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#58 Egregious For Other Reasons, My Girlfriend’s Copy Of Jeanette Mccurdy’s “I’m Glad My Mom Died” Came In Nick Jr Packaging

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#59 More Of This Please

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#60 Ordered Two Lightbulbs. One Came In This Box. The Other Came In A Normal Sized Box

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#61 Why Individually Package Them In Plastic 2 Packs When They’re Already Wrapped??

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#62 Literally W H Y

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#63 Individually Plastic Wrapped Chocolates In A Plastic Bag

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#64 Individually Packed 0.7 Pencil Lead

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#65 Why? For What Reason? To What Possible Advantage?

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#66 Was The Paper Seriously Supposed To Keep The Two Items From Moving Around In This Huge Box?

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#67 A Bag With A Box Of 2 Packs Of 2 Individually Wrapped Chocolate Bars

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#68 This Has So Many Depths Of Fucked Up

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#69 Wasteful Packaging Should Be A Crime. Credit: Gegloon On Reddit Via @get.waste.ed

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#70 Does This Count?

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#71 This Microphone Preamp Came In A Absurdly Large Box

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#72 All This For Some Spirit Gum :/

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#73 Pure Absurdity

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#74 Can’t Be Too Careful!

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#75 Kinder Bueno

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#76 Just Ordered A 140cm Shower Bar… Maybe I Ordered The Entire Bathroom

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#77 Every Damn Fork Was Individually Wrapped

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#78 I Was Delighted When Ca Started Free Lunches At School. Early Dismissal Means I’m Seeing It For The First Time And Am Now Horrified

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#79 This Nail Polish Probably Felt Like It Pulled Up In A Rolls-Royce

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#80 One Medium Dog Food Tray, Humongous Box

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