[quote name='dmaul1114']Talk about inefficient/wasteful packaging. Ordered two 6 ft optical cables from Amazon Basics--they came in a 19.5" x 14.25' by 4.25" box! Each cable was in it's own 8" x 8" x 2.5" box inside that, with several of those air packs around them!
Crazy. I normally order cables from monoprice, but went with Amazon this time for the faster shipping as I needed a couple more optical cables to hook up my old toslink switcher as I'm out of optical inputs on my old receiver again now that I have the 360 and PS3.[/QUOTE]Amazon sometimes has brain farts like that when it comes to packaging. I've had a few boxes like that happen at random times, so I've come to expect them every so often.
They're not the only one to do it, though they're the only one recently that I can think of that does it.