Internet-based businesses are fantastic at

Internet-based businesses are fantastic at organizing their catalogs, warehouses and customer-relations, but they have a lot to learn about packing for shipment. This Wired News story explains why Amazon ships you a single CD in a box big enough to hold twenty of ’em, and what it costs etailers who use outsized packaging and fill up the empty space with bubblewrap or ghost-turds.LinkDiscuss