Product at bottom left in the silvery anti-static bag. Packaging all around it. Now can you explain to me why all this air should be shipped with this product? I'll posit my shipping guy's theory (nevermind mine, he actually knows the business): money. Put simply, a co. can charge more for shipping a larger package, even if the actual cost of doing so is negligible. Everyone in the shipping chain makes more money.
Now the actual excuse given should you ask this question of any co., is likely to be along these lines "but we can't reduce the size of the packaging b/c we can't fit the labels! OMG, waaah!" I'll say this just once; most of the time, when there's an economic incentive to do otherwise then "can't" and "won't" are fully interchangeable. As I said before, shipping a larger package full of air makes everyone in the shipping chain more money; that's an economic incentive.To the industries concerned (which is most of them; let's not pretend that I am singling out any one co here for special treatment, as the picture is merely a common example) - Change the size of the labels and reduce the waste, you f*cks. We're increasingly tired of you stealing profits now in the form of hidden (slowly becoming unhidden) costs in our children's futures.