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I wonder who at Flipkart parcels up books for delivery.

I imagine it’s either a person whose previous job was salesperson at an S&M shop where she or he specialised in bondage or a person whose previous job was in a government office where she or he specialised in red tape.

That’s because parcels from Flipkart are the most diabolically sellotaped parcels EVER, designed to make grown women weep.

Because I have bought into the whole reduce, reuse, recycle philosophy, I am frequently weeping when my parcels arrive from Flipkart.

That’s because I attempt to open them in such a way that I can reuse the cardboard boxes or at least flatten them out so they can be recycled.

So I begin the attempt by scrabbling at the sellotape till I find an end.

Then I scrape at the end with my nails till I succeed in pulling it up a little bit.

Then I try and pull it off.

It seems to be coming off… yes… yes… aaarrrggghhh! (Extremely bad language.)

I can’t pull it any further because there’s a cross band of another piece of sellotape over this first piece of sellotape.

So I scrabble about till I find an end of this new piece of sellotape.

Then I scrape at the end with my nails till I succeed in pulling it up a little bit.

Then I try and pull it off.

It seems to be coming off… yes… yes… NOOOOOOOO! (Even worse language.)

What’s happened is, this new piece of sellotape has been cross banded with aNOTHER piece of sellotape and I can’t pull it off any further.

So I scrabble about till I find an end of this new new piece of sellotape.

Then I scrape at the end with my nails till I succeed in pulling it up a little bit.

Then I try and pull it off.

It seems to be coming off… yes… yes… THE WORST LANGUAGE EVER!

Because this new new piece of sellotape has been cross banded with yet another piece of sellotape.

It’s diaBOLical.

The only way I can open a parcel from Flipkart is to attack it with a machete.

Do you have a better way?

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Posted by Kushal Rani Gulab on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 5:27 pm 
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  • Atul8

    Haaarrrumpphh!!

    Use a cutting blade, Luv, the sliding kind…………Choose your spot, gentle pierce, and slit away with a firm hand…..The opening is near magical.

    You would find these baldes at any stationery shop…..

    And why do women always have to do simple things the hard way??

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    Parvana Noorani Reply:
    February 25th, 2011 at 1:58 pm

    I agree and they’re also handy for opening those equally diabolical shrink wraps that cover new CDs!

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    Kushal Reply:
    February 26th, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Don’t talk to me about shrinkwrap, Parvana. Shudder.

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    Kushal Reply:
    February 26th, 2011 at 12:05 pm

    I use a kitchen knife, Atul. But I have no choice but to demolish the entire parcel. Flipkart also sellotapes the plastic packet around the books to the INSIDE of the box.

    I think this is their way of telling us not to forget that life will never be easy.

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  • sg

    Agree, agree! I use a small sharp scissors.
    And I think the best is still bubble wrapped books in an ordinary envelope work fine ANd can be re-used.
    i have and do…

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    Kushal Reply:
    February 26th, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    Absolutely, sg.

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  • Sumita

    I used to do the same thing earlier, it took a l-o-n-g time and tested my patience no end… till I discovered a paper knife. Things are smooth now!

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    Kushal Reply:
    February 26th, 2011 at 12:07 pm

    But do you get a box that can be reused, or a flattened piece of cardboard that can be recycled, Sumita?

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  • Anirudh

    Agree to whatever being said here! We don’t need to find ways to make the process easy, Flipkart need to improvise their packing! Period!

    Though I tried this new site uread.com and their packing is also as cumbersome if not more! Landmark and crossword have easy packing comparatively!!!

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