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To shreds, you say? (lemmy.stuart.fun)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I just want to open a box without tearing it to pieces.

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[-] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago

Don't you just love the boxes with the convenient rip-strip thing when the glue is practically always in the wrong spot, making it completely useless...

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

This is thanks to cutting corners. A material scientist will come up with a genuinely perfect tear-open container, just to have marketing and budget teams purchase lower-quality materials that no longer perform the advertised way.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Or on the production line they cut corners on having some technician check that some piece of equipment is calibrated correctly. So the tip strip ends up two inches lower than where it’s supposed to be.

This happens to me all the time with string cheese I can’t get open.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Tsk tsk, and how is the package inside the box holding up?

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

To shreds, you say. Very well, then.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

It's too bad box cutters were made illegal to own or possess after 9/11. /s

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Such a must have household item in this day and age

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

also plastic bags ever since ultrasonic welding became more widespread. now the seam is as strong or stronger than the surrounding plastic so you can't just pull the seam apart for a clean edge like you could with most heat-sealed edges

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I've honestly started just using my scalpels I have for 3d printing to open any of those plastic sealed containers. It's getting out of hand.

this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2023
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