shoe_maker, We cannot change this shipping policy decision via the Forum. Your best bet is to post your thoughts on the Dell IdeaStorm.
Dear Dell Shipping, we are a provider of tech support and network management and one of our customers ordered six new Dell Inspiron 660 towers. four of the boxes were of black lettering and marking on them and two were white lettering and markings, the only difference I could find was a "assembled in Mexico" on the white boxes. inside the black boxes I found the typical foam protectors and the computers were bagged and desiccant was included. inside the white boxes I found no bagging on the computer, no desiccant and the foam protectors were replaced by flimsy molded plastic forms. I assume the plastic forms is a way to save money for shipments that do not get "shipped" from overseas and the lack of desiccant would indicate the same trane of thought. I would encourage Dell to keep using the foam packaging as I have cut my hands twice now from moving the computers out of and back into the boxes plus, the plastic forms do not adhere to the side of the computers as well as the foam and they tend to fall off at the most inopportune times.   Thanks for listening
New Packaging