Have you got anything larger than that?

I recently ordered two items from Endless.com (Amazon.com’s foray into shoes and handbags) - a pair of flats and a pair of knee-high boots - and had them delivered to my apartment in San Francisco.  After walking in the door after work that evening, Sam pointed to an enormous box in the middle of the living room - “I think those are your shoes.” 

It was complete packaging overload.  In this over-sized box was several feet of thick, heavy brown paper (”paper pythons,” as I called them) and on the bottom lay two boxes with my shoes in them.  Having ordered shoes online before, I know that they have boxes for a regular-ish sized shoebox and a longer, flatter box for tall boots; I guess what they don’t have is a decently sized box that can hold both of types of shoes.  I feel bad for the UPS delivery man that had to lug that thing around (who is probably the same poor chap that had to deliver my sister’s Christmas present of the Harry Potter hardcover books 1-6, which Amazon lists at 13.9 lbs.) They threw in two boxes of Godiva chocolates (little thank you gifts close to Valentine’s Day?), which I nearly tossed out as they hid in the yards of paper in the cavernous box.