Trying to avoid using the AIBU thread!

Evening all, and sending every good wish.

Now, although many GN members disapprove, I do use that online ordering company with the name of a long river

However, of late I have been somewhat miffed by their packing habits. Actually, for " miffed" read pretty pissed off and rather

I order a month's supply of cat food pouches. The pouches themselves come packed in their own sturdy cardboard boxes, each containing 40 pouches.

The 3 sturdy boxes are placed within another sturdy box for delivery. Fair enough.

But does that box need to have umpteen of those air filled plastic cushions things inside it, and be labelled "fragile" on the outside

Today, my delivery of 2 fitted sheets arrived, and although (thank goodness) they were not labelled "fragile" on the outside (in fact there was some sort of adhesive tape trying to persuade me that Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher was available to me as a Prime Member, erm, don't think so, have read a few of the books, and from what I can recall Jack Reacher was a tall chap, who had not displayed any tendencies towards odd religions or putting hamsters up his bottom, (yes, I know that Jack Reacher is a fictional character, and Tom Cruise is an actor, but there is only so far that one can suspend belief).

Anyway, the box the sheets came in was also kitted out with those bloody air filled things!

WHY???

They are sheets, folded over cardboard, and then wrapped in thick plastic stuff, what on earth are the air filled things supposed to do, other than give me more stuff to send to landfill?