This happens, a lot. And it makes me both want to laugh and cry when I see it.
To wit; an eleven inch by eleven inch cardboard box, filled with 'brown newspaper' packing to fill the space inside and 'protect' the product from banging around.
The product inside?
A bag of non-damagable biopsy bags, about the size of a small pack of flour tortillas.
...er, yeah. Conservation, whut?