You know when you decide to pull that mean prank on your brother at christmas? You know, when you put the pair of socks you bought him inside a series of duct tape wrapped boxes reminiscant of Matryoshka dolls?

Apparently someone at HP does too. After setting the world record for excessive packaging back in july for shipping a huge box, which then contained sixteen smaller boxes, each holding two pages of foam wrapped paper.

 

HP wasn't happy though. They had to go bigger. Better. They had to ensure that those sissies at Dell or IBM or, heaven forbid, Apple didn't oneup them. They've fine tuned their carbon footprint enlargement program , by shipping a ten foot AC power cord from Shanghai-- in a giant, empty box strapped to a 10kg pallet.

  Way to go, boys. Keep up the good work.