Bikes shipped in boxes with TV set printed on box suffer less delivery damage

Dutch manufacturer Vanmoof started printing a photo of a TV set on the boxes it uses to ship bikes. Now the bikes arrive at their destination in perfect condition.

From Cycling Weekly:No matter who was doing the shipping, too many of our bikes arrived looking like theyd been through a metal-munching combine harvester. It was getting expensive for us, and bloody annoying for our customers, creative director Bex Rad wrote on the companys blog.Earlier this year our co-founder Ties had a flash of genius. Our boxes are about the same size as a (really really reaaaally massive) flatscreen television. Flatscreen televisions always arrive in perfect condition. What if we just printed a flatscreen television on the side of our boxes?And just like that, shipping damage to our bikes dropped by 7080%.

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