While ago, we ordered some hand sanitiser from our stationery supplier. It came in a box measuring around 25cm x 15cm x 22cm. The box had a packing slip folded and placed in a stuck-on window pocket, along with another piece of paper: a Dangerous Goods Declaration and Packaging Declaration with a big red stamp DGLQ on it and personally signed by the storeperson responsible, and dated. On the box some additional stickers had been added: One red triangle, with 'Flammable Liquid', one black triangle with the centre label peeled off, an orange Fragile sticker, another sticker with DGSP EXEMPT, a courier delivery docket, a Dangerous Goods label specifically for the attention of the courier. Inside the box was about a dozen air bags which everyone has fun bursting. At the bottom of the box is a plastic bag tied with a knot in it. Inside the plastic bag is a hand sanitiser pump.
What the most deliciously ironic is that the product is required as a health & safety requirement to remove potential germs that exist in and outside the workplace. I'm sure all the prep, packaging and delivery will cost three times the cost of the sanitiser, just because of a health and safety requirement.
