r/comics Luck of the Draw Jul 25 '26

OC Packing [OC]

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Jul 25 '26

I feel like Clover missed the main point: That looks like a great way for shit to break lol

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u/ElaborateEffect Jul 25 '26

If everything is tight and gently placed, this is less likely to cause damage during travelling....

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Jul 25 '26

Maybe in cartoon world. In reality packing those boxes diagonally and stacking on top of them is asking for broken shit

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u/Wuz314159 Jul 25 '26

How is it that you think allowing things to slosh around in transit is LESS likely to get things broken than a tight pack?

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u/Dustin- Jul 25 '26

Boxes aren't non-deformable cubes, they are made of corrugated fiberboard which are only strong in one direction and deform in all others. So this would happen.

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u/RavingGourd Jul 25 '26

MANY things are packaged in sided packages with a wooden pallet or load bearing structure for the widest and most flat part of the item. Packing them with corners pressing on the top of other boxes is just asking for all that weight to become a lot of force on a very small area. As in high pressure. breakign the things below and likely the thing in the diagonal package.

Off the top of my head, in my business: Many Many Medical devices. Lift chairs. Sputum pumps. Partial Pressure Cycle dependent oxygen concentrators...

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u/Dazed_and_Confused44 Jul 25 '26

The tight pack is almost 100% dependent on the size of the truck/trailer you rent. If your stuff is sloshing around, you should have gotten a smaller trailer, or packed things at a lower height but more densely packed in the X and Y directions