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** That plastic anti-static tube full of small computer chips will then be placed in a small antistatic bag or two, then placed into padding or bubble wrap for shipping, then placed into a cardboard box... largely for protection from static electricity or mechanical damage, but even the tiniest speck of a component attracts many times its own weight in packaging material. Order one resistor (which in surface-mount is commonly 0.080" x 0.050" or smaller) and see how much extra packaging is placed around it before the part actually gets shipped. :)
* Some parents will often package something small in a much larger box during a gift-giving holiday to tease them.
** This makes sense if the form factor would otherwise make the contents obvious... such as a printed book, a vinyl LP or an audio/video cassette. A gift wrapping which follows exactly the outline of a distinctive object (be it a violin or an iron anvil) might be amusing for fictional dramatic purposes, but would be a dead giveaway of the contents in real life.
== Smaller case or misleading shape examples ==
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