Yepp....getting a small box, inside a big box (from AMAZON) is ridiculous...
I do a lot of business with Amazon and I am amazed at how they package stuff. Yesterday I received a new Microsoft Surface Pro, selling for almost two grand, and it was in the retail box that was inside a much larger box with just a piece of brown wrapping paper for stuffing and it was basically loose inside the bigger box and could have been easily damaged. On the other hand I routinely get orders for far less expensive items, some which would take a tank running over them to damage them, yet they are placed inside a box with loads of bubble wrap, the placed inside another box with lots of packaging paper, followed by yet a bigger box. Ironically this very thing also happened to an item that was advertised as “frustration free packaging”.