Addidng more 'human' in the proccess of packaging would make a diffrence, yes. It can't all be done by robotics. When someone sees a 4x2x3" deck being dropped into a box big enough to ship a puppy in, they should be pulling it and repackaging it into something more appropriate.
First, that shouldn't happen with near the frequency it once did thanks to our new shipping system. It now picks the best box for the dimensions of the items being shipped and the shipping method that you choose.
Second, I think you're assuming that we stock every size and shape of box imaginable. We don't. Our space to store shipping boxes is limited. At the time of this writing we already store 15 types of shipping boxes, which takes up a huge portion of our storage area. We did recently add a 8x6x3 box for First Class and Parcel Post orders with small decks.
Third, what difference would it make at that point? You've already paid for a certain size of shipping, because as I stated earlier, we need to charge you for shipping at checkout time, not at shipping time.
Wholesale buying of drawstring bags can be done cheaper, the wedding industry has the right sizes for cheap, when they can resell them for $3 retail at Michaels, their supplier can give you a deal just as good. OR you can contract locally with independent sewers, those kinds of bags are not difficult to make enmasse.
As I stated previously we have contacted several local vendors and were not able to procure them in the united states inexpensively.
My sister's daughter had her wedding in Sept., she ordered the organza bags off the Uline site (they have an excellent selection of color, all drawstring) which totaled 37 cents each in the size that would hold a tarot deck. They also offer gold mettalic bags that are drawstring, for 44 cents each. They're on page 167 of their online catalog here---
http://catalog.uline.com/WebProject.asp?CodeId=7.7.1.23&BookCode=dqq12flx&Language=enu
Uline ships next day, the drawstring bags come in bundles of 100 and 120 for the above choices, so even if you only get one bundle, that would be cheap enough to cover tarot deck sales at your end.
Thank you for that. I had no idea that Uline was selling bags like this. We already order boxes from them, so I'll definitely check out their selection of bags and see what we can do to add them to our inventory.