Excess packaging

We just got a box from Signals which had two Christmas gifts in it — two items made of cloth.

The items were in a box about 2 feet long, 1 foot wide, and 6 inches high, which was ridiculously large. Worse, the items were surrounded by a zillion stryofoam peanuts.

I imagine there’s a standard packaging procedure at Signals, but this is wasteful and dumb.