Company admits use of boxes '500 times too large'
Published Date:
07 October 2008
A company which sent out tiny items of stationery in boxes 500 times their size has been labelled "ridiculous" by traders in Northampton.
Online firm Viking Direct sent tiny correction rollers to a firm in Earls Barton in boxes capable of holding hundreds of the devices.
After receiving the bizarre packages, the Earls Barton firm reported Viking Direct to Northamptonshire Trading Standards officers who took immediate action because of the waste of packaging.
And after seeing pictures of the massive boxes used to ship the tiny devices, stationery expert Tracy Goldsmith, who is the branch manager of Colemans stationery in St Giles Street, Northampton, said the situation was crazy.
She said: "It just looks absolutely ridiculous to me. There's no way putting something as tiny as that in a box that big could ever make sense."
After being challenged by Trading Standards, Viking Direct admitted using excess packaging for its products.
The firm, part of Leicester-based Office Depot International, agreed to sign a caution following the investigation and carried out an internal investigation and implemented new systems to make sure it complies with packaging legislation.
Concerns about excess packaging can be reported to Trading Standards on 08454 040506.
The full article contains 208 words and appears in Northampton Chron & Echo newspaper.
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Last Updated:
07 October 2008 10:50 AM
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Source:
Northampton Chron & Echo
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Location:
Northampton
