Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 05, 2024

I wonder why Amazon ships things in different packages from the same place at the same time.

Usually the thing you smuggle has to have value. Who wants California atmosphere?

No, boxes get measured as well. So who’s still shipping like that? Amazon stopped doing that quite a while ago. For something that small, they simply use a plastic bag, if possible.

Especially don’t want California Political atmosphere.

And a free “cat trap” with the dog supplies!

(You know how cats love to climb into boxes!)

My favorite is a bag within a box within a box.

Looks more like 30 or 40 litres to me… also, interesting that Jef would use liters instead of cubic feet.

I like the idea of using them as a cat litter box. When they need changing, tape them up and leave them out for the Porch Pirates. Repurposing, recycling, and revenge.

Makes about as much sense.

Happy National Cartoonists Day!!!

In the movie We’re No Angels, Bogart said he had been jailed for selling bottled air. Said he offered sea air, woodland air and clean air for city dwellers [not an accurate list]. Maybe Los Angeles, Chicago, Pittsburgh [in earlier times] would make good markets for imported air from the islands, Alaska, Hawaii, etc.

Amazon could handle it. After all, they haul goods from places never imagined, by companies nobody ever heard of, using names that are about as familiar as Tibetan Wok menus.

Yes, Jef, we’ve all seen Spaceballs

I wish I’d thought of little air-filled pillows for packing material. Or padded envelopes.

My cats appreciate the boxes.

Better too much than too less, unless you like damaged products. That said it doesn’t have to be ridiculous. You just want to avoid things that can get caught up where the conveyor belts meet in distribution facilities or can be mistaken for garbage, should they fall on the floor.

Now she has this irresistible feeling to call everyone “Dude.”

No need to smuggle air. Just wait awhile, then, breathe and maybe have a cigarette or two

A notice once said that shipping charges are determined by weight or volume, whichever one is greater.

On a more serious note – the shipping departments may use a few standard-sized boxes so they can load more of them into the trailers without the contents getting crushed or leaving open space between the boxes. The Customer Support agent for one company I dealt with a lot (for myself and others) once sent me a photo of the semi trailer they have at their loading dock – half-filled with boxes ready to go out when it was filled, or at 10 PM, whichever came first.

What I don’t understand is Amazon’s “Amazon Day”, where they claim to be going to send fewer packages. The last couple of Amazon Day shipments I’ve gotten, I got 2-3 packages each time.

Liters, eh? Congratulations to that school for teaching metric measurements, which are used by 96% of the people on Earth. The USA is one of the very few still clinging to ACHU, the Accidental Collection of Heterogeneous Units, but one day we too will have to face the inevitable and metricate, if for no other reason than the practical one that nobody else on Earth is going to want to buy our products if they’re still sized in round numbers of inches, quarts, or pounds.

This is how California reduced its smog levels.

Depending on the company and what computer management systems used, this is very true. With modern systems, the handler is instructed which size of box to use when picking or packing product from the warehouse. I see this type of thing very often where I work.Despite what you have heard or read about AI, computers are often very stupid. They repeat only what the program tells them, and the program was written by some stupid human beings.

Today is Revenge of the fifth!

Smell-a-vision from smog land.

If it’s wildfire season, sure. The rest of the year California has cleaner and more temperate atmosphere than the other 47; why would they get rid of it?

The last time I saw California atmosphere (around March Air Force Base) it wasn’t fit to breathe.

Ship the air back and ask for a credit.

Happy to see metric units (liters) in this nice comic.