industry.
I just had a supplier in China ship me 7 components- each a little smaller than a credit card. They split the shipment up into 3 different shipments that were comically under-packed. One box was probably 30x15x15, and the others were a little smaller. Even with the anti-static and packaging inside of the boxes, each box could have held at least 60 or 70 of these units.
Each one was overnighted from China, and they arrived within 1 day of each other. Could have accomplished the same with 1 much smaller package.