Fia
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ludicrously excess packagingI have had to replace 2 electrical items recently, and am completely bemused as to why a separate, beautifully crafted to perfectly fit, little plastic cover is on the 3 plug pins. With the card idiots guide to rewiring which I never save because of course I know how to rewire a plug -until they changed the colour coding anyway 
What purpose do they serve? As anyone who is as daft as me to step on an upturned plug knows  they are very hardy items. And no-one on the house could come up with an idea for re-using them.
I hesitate to cry 'health and safety gone mad' as perhaps I've missed something. Or is it just made because they can? If so, is there somewhere I can send them to in protest?
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wildgarlic
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I've noticed this too. WHY? Is it to protect the item from scratches (in this day of shiny black plastic electrical goods) or is it to protect the consumer from scraping their hands when they unpack the goods?
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lor138
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I could never understand this either. Every bloomin' plug is the same now - absolutely no need IMO!
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Cassiepod
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It's even worse when you don't notice it and get upset that the plug doesn't fit in the socket...... dumdedumdedum 
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IainC
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That's not excessive packaging (although it's un-necessary), have seen companies like HP, Dell, etc send out a single power cable in a box big enough to send a laptop or PC in... and all it contained was the power cable... worse, it was filled with stuff to stop the cable rattling about.
Also heard of them sending out so many licences to someone... each licence was just a sheet of A4 paper... but each A4 sheet was packaged in it's own cardboard box and lined with bubble wrap... as the guy had bought a heap of them he recieved a couple of HUGE boxes, each containing say 10 other boxes, all of which were packed like above... you could have sent everything in an A5 envelope if you'd really wanted.
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Smooth Hound
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some of this plastic covers are impossible to get into with out a sharp pointy knife, and your more likely to slip and cut yourself with that than you are of hurting yourself with a plug
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Julie
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What's the betting it has something to do with the American market.
The place where you could be sued for letting someone scratch their hand on an unprotected metal plug...............if you follow my drift??
This is the same country where a woman successfully sued the manufacturers of a microwave because she used it to dry her small dog and it got cooked. She argued that there should have been a warning on the box I believe.
It might equally be to protect the appliance from scratch damage I guess but in that case, a recess in the polystyrene packing should suffice.
Designed by a genius, packaged by morons 
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Fia
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| Julie wrote: |
Designed by a genius, packaged by morons |
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Kelly
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She cooked her dog!! OMFG!!!! LMAO!!!! (but poor doggy )
But seriously..we laugh at the obvious safety warnings (warning! this product contains nuts/ milk/ wheat on a packet of pnuts/ bottle of milk/ loaf of bread...or do not imerse electrical equipment in water.... ) But the poor guys at these companies must live in a state of perpetual fear....there will always be the idiot who does something sio dumb you couldn't make it up.....at least it was her dog...not a baby or something ...o.0
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