...to consider this excessive?

YANBU

They are the hangers used on shop rails, but I agree it’s unnecessary and annoying when they’re supplied to customers like this.

In-store I suppose they are hung separately so each pair need labelling.

YANBU. But it’s probably the quickest way for them to be dealt with - all prepared to be sold in shops, then sent out by mail order but prepared for shop sale.

The last parcel I had from M&S looked like a badger had packed it. It was all screwed up and shoved into a bag, no hangers or folding was necessary!

Now I've go this little image in my mind of badgers on a production line, wearing caps and name badges, packing up goods to send out..

I bought a pack of tescos knickers fairly recently, and they are quite good. Probably won't last as long as M&S's, but not far off the same sort of quality. And just in the one plastic packet.

It was always part of the long term employment plan wrt leaving the EU. Keeps badgers, workforces and farmers happy but no one tell the foxes.

Do you think Amazon employs badgers then? I've had a couple of weirdly packed parcels from them recently. ?

I don't know, do you think Weasels would employ badgers? All the badgers I have known have a good sense of responsibility. My encounters with weasels have been questionable but stoats are stoatally different.

Well, that was stoattaly uncalled for.

How do you tell the difference between a parcel packed by a stoat and one packed by a weasel? The one from the weasel is weasily recognised, but the one from the stoat is stoatally different.

I'm sure someone will ferret out an answer...

My last parcel from M&S also arrived with the item screwed up and no invoice etc or details if I’d wanted to return it.

See, packed by badgers is a growing trend

M& S probably have swans doing their parcels ?

It takes Swan to no swan?
I am no very worried about the badgers arms, no wonder they are screwing up the clothes and forgetting with the invoices

Perhaps we should all meet up in the badger's arms when this is over...

All these critters, beavering away so doggedly to get our stuff to us. ... I had no idea!
I started this thread feeling distinctly grumpy but you've all made me smile.

I was foxed for a while but I beavered away at the problem and decided they’ve all escaped from The Wind in the Willows!

I can picture frogs blowing up all the bubble wrap...

It spawns a few people who just like to pop it.......

That's put the (muste)lid on it.

It’s not just the plastic hangers etc, we moved house 6 months ago and have had deliveries if all shapes and sizes from building materials to all the finishing touches. The amount of packaging on each item is ridiculous, we have recycled all the cardboard and other recyclable packaging where possible, but polystyrene and a lot of plastic isn’t recycled.