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.
Alpena County is in the northeast of the mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Lake Huron and Thunder Bay are to the east, Alcona County to the south, Oscoda County to the southwest, Montmorency County to the west, and Presque Isle County to the north.