Is Hard Plastic Packaging Necessary?
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During the past few weeks, I have been working with a youth group, and we have been building a computer system. The main purpose is to give the students, 8th and 9th graders, practical hands on experience in building a system from scratch. Once the system is completed, we will be donating the computer to a local charity that provides food and clothing to people in need.
Some of the parts, hard drive, DVD rom, cpu container and heatsink/fan came in hard plastic packaging. You know the type of packaging I am talking about. The type of packaging that you need a table saw or hatchet to open. The hard plastic stuff that becomes razor sharp when cut with scissors and can take off a chunk of flesh if you are not careful.
So now here is a question. What is the purpose of hard plastic packaging? It is some type of a test to see if we can open the package to get to the product? Is it to see how many people we can get into the emergency room? 
Comments welcome.
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Ace
November 17th, 2008
at 1:33pm
I guess it’s mainly to fend off shoplifting, since it’s so immensely difficult to open, petty-thieves will most likely not even make the effort of jacking a hard-plastic package open in the store.
For the rest of us it’s just a nuisance. I’ve heard it sometimes helps to use a can-opener. Haven’t tried it myself yet, but it seems logical.
Jeff
November 17th, 2008
at 4:17pm
besides the Horrible agony it is to open them, I actually know why this is - you use the heavy plastic because cardboard is too feeble to peg it. It hangs on pegs, and that plastic is the fastest, easiest, and best lasting method to stock it that way.
Things you learn from a medical warehouse >.>