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More Package Design Deception: Signal Snowboards Ships Theirs Disguised as Fluorescent Light Bulbs

First we saw Dutch bicycle manfacturer VanMoof printing flatscreen TVs on their shipping boxes, in hopes handlers would treat them more gently. Now we’ve learned that California-based Signal Snowboards is pulling a similar shipping-damage-avoiding trick with their snowboard packaging:

My only fear is that, as more people cotton to this trick and shippers eventually catch on, it’ll just be a matter of time before they’re tossing real TVs and lightbulbs out of the truck and onto the concrete. Boy who cried fake package design?