Packaging bloatware

Here we have different aspects coming into each other:  Marketing, Shipping, Security, Storage, Manufacturing.

Space and size directly effect shipping costs, storage costs and manufacture costs.

The actual package it's self, some ideas are good and others are bad.

1. Larger the package is the less documentation that needs to printed and shipped.
2. Packages with air are crush able and take up extra space.
3. Packages with extra padding are much larger but are questionable safer.
4. Package shape effects total storage space: boxes are fixed in which are unforgiving, bags are cram able, blisters can be flipped to stack into each other and take less space.
5. Package layering, I'm not talking the combing of different items into a single package but a single item in multiple layers of equal worth packaging.  Now an excusable event of this is an outside layer being unlabeled to prevent product theft or undue dmg.

Large package save on documents, problem comes when they get much larger then the item inside and thus are wasting space with air or padding.  End result it costs more to ship and store that air then it would to just print a folded booklet.

Package protection...here is direct fault of shipping personal just not caring.  They throw, kick and stack.  So knowing this you can't blame a corporation for extra padding packages to prevent product dmg in shipping.  But the cheaper route would be to directly handle the package handlers to be more careful.

Anti-theft and anti-tampering.  For some products some level of anti-tamper is needed to secure a fixed level health standard or contaminate accumulation.  But the bulk of this can be done cheaper at the staff level by either increasing staff pay to be loyal or afford local cost of living and increasing number of staff to keep an eye on the product.