The Cornervery: a 90-Degree Stapler
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The Cornervery is a 90-degree stapler designed for efficient packaging, but commenters question its practicality, cost, and effectiveness, sparking a debate about its value.
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It's about $0.20 per staple. The design of the boxes they're demonstrating use 2 - 8 staples per box depending on size and folding design. That's $0.40 - $1.60 which figures into cost of packaging. It's not unheard of for things like bespoke soaps to have extravagant packaging, jewelry, I can think of a few more, I bet you can too. Spending $5 on packaging for a ~$80 product wouldn't be out of line. I'm thinking in that number a box fully glued, stapled, or otherwise, internal packing material, any paper inserts, etc. So on avg. $0.80-per-box, meh sure why not.
https://www.kohezi.com/en-us/products/cornervery-staples?pr_...
Also on Firefox. But I have NoScript.
But apply little bit of pressure at the top, and the vertical edges of your box open up and potentially spill the contents.