[Vision2020] Revising Shakespeare

[Sue Hovey]

No, first we kill the packaging engineers.  The lawyers are only a minor annoyance.  

Sue H. 

From: Dan Carscallen 
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 8:08 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Revising Shakespeare

Somewhere I saw a suggestion that one should use a hand operated can opener to open some of those plastic clamshell packages.  Haven’t tried it yet, but it makes sense to me.

 

DC

 

From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com] On Behalf Of Art Deco
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2013 9:52 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Revising Shakespeare

 

I wonder how many V2020ers have been bothered by the trend of making packaged goods more and more difficult to open and to use.

A pair of industrial grade tin snips is needed to open some of the clamshell type packaging, and even then it is difficult to open some packages without marring or harming the contents.  The instructions for the use of some items in clamshell packages are printed only on the packaging, which is thick, clumsy, and outsized thereby making it difficult to store instead of being printed on more normal sized paper.

in the last few months some genius has invented and this invention is being used to package food, mostly frozen, in pouches which now take surgical grade scissors to cut open, and hardly any or no flange is left to grasp while opening to avoid spilling.

Perhaps Shakespeare's famous words about attorneys need to be revised henceforth to:

"First we kill all the lawyers and packaging engineers."


-- 
Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)
art.deco.studios at gmail.com





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