Dear Chinese manufacturers:

[Brigid]

I just spent 20 minutes, and nearly destroyed a heavy-duty box cutter, opening a simple product I purchased earlier today. This happens on a regular basis these days, it seems. It's bad enough most of our manufacturing jobs have been moved over there -- is it really necessary to overpackage everything to the point where it almost requires a chainsaw to get it open?

[cloudbase]

1. Complain to the company that had it made.

The packaging is to their specs.

[hankthecrank]

2. whose to blame that everthing they make is crap

its all junk


if its got a made in China label its crap

when you need it to work it will fall apart on you

don't even things about getting parts for it the plant that made it is making something else now

[Mopar151]

9. Big tin snips or aviation snips rule. Heavy duty kitchen shears work well, too

For the accursed staples, you want some big diagonal cutters with hardened edges - work good on plastic strapping, too



If you do much steel strapping, get some of these:

Cheezy little wire cutters from the dollar store are a waste of the dollar for this purpose

[Curmudgeoness]

4. I used a chainsaw once.

Cut that thing all to hell and back. Of course, the contents were not spared.

[oneshooter]

5. It is made that way to help prevent theft. The package is way oversize for the same reason.

[bluedigger]

6. Wait until you have to open your new boxcutter!

[KT2000]

7. Costco was using

a special tool to open those things and they worked great. They quit using them though and have not seem them for sale anywhere. I have ruined many pairs of scissors with those things.

[HopeHoops]

8. You need to rephrase that in Engrish.

[waveformblue]

10. First post

The packaging is often more durable than the Made-in-China product within.

[NV Whino]

11. I spent 15 minutes

Using a can opener, a battery powered jar opener, a lever type opener and a knife to get into a bottle of cranberry juice today. Then, of course, when I finally popped it open, I spilled half the damned bottle on a good pair of pants. A letter to Ocean Spray is in the works.

This stuff drives me crazy. I've been know to take mangled, but unopened, packages back to the store to return to the manufacturer… if they ever do.