Here is an amazing example of excessive packaging that if accurate would take the cake for the most egregious example we've seen. An Australia-based user, on the popular site Notebookreview.com claims that HP delivered a power cord, complete with a wooden pallet.
Alpena, Arkansas. Alpena is a town in Boone and Carroll counties in the U.S. state of Arkansas. The population was 392 at the 2010 census. The Boone County portion of Alpena is part of the Harrison Micropolitan Statistical Area. Contents.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,695 square miles (4,390 km2), of which 572 square miles (1,480 km2) is land and 1,123 square miles (2,910 km2) (66%) is water. Alpena County is in the northeast of the mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula of Michigan.