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Columbia Corrugated Box 12777 SW Tualatin-Sherwood Rd. Tualatin, OR 97062
August 22, 2007
Dear Columbia Corrugated Box,
I had to open up a box of goggles at work today. We were all out of not broken goggles, so we ordered some more. They came in a box and I opened it, then distributed the goggles to the various workers. “Here,” I yelled. “Goggles.”
Then I got to thinking: there’s a company out there, somewhere, that MAKES these goggles. A goggle factory! And they put their goggles in boxes and ship them to companies like mine. But extrapolating further into my daydream left me wondering where boxes came from, so I did some research and found out that there are certain enterprises conceived for the express purpose of manufacturing boxes. Yours, for example.
How, though, do you go about shipping these boxes? Does a box manufacturer pack its boxes in other boxes? If so, where do those boxes come from? All these levels of meta-manufacturing hurt my brain.
I work for a company that makes pallets. All day long I unload wooden pallets from the conveyor belt, then stack them on even larger pallets and ship them to people. People who need pallets. We need goggles, they tell us, because sawdust is not good for our eyes. And the goggles come in a box. But where does that box come from? How is it shipped? I need to know!
Sincerely,
Kevin Dickinson Level 3 Pallet Unloader |
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