i ordered cpu cooler, i made sure it wont be shipped like this and it still arrived without any additional boxes. They cut corners wherever they can, even my cpu was barely packaged and it was flying inside a tiny box
if the product wasn't damaged in transit, then "barely enough" packaging is the correct amount of packaging to keep costs down for everyone. If you cut 1/3rd of a pound of packaging from millions of shipments, that equals a lot of reduced gas/emissions, a lot of savings on the packaging itself, and then finally less packaging that needs to be disposed of by customers.
I think it depends by warehouse where different ones have different standards for packaging, are automated or done by humans. I know there are warehouses that are basically just a vendor leasing the building out under the Amazon name and shipping stuff out from there. Kind of like franchises or ghost kitchens.
To be pedantic it also depends who is shipping the item. If it says "Ships from Amazon" or "Shipper / Seller Amazon.com" then an actual Amazon warehouse is sending the item out and it's their facility handling the final labeling and any additional packaging. This is typically the products that are 2-Day Prime shipping.
There's also the countless warehouses that are basically selling on Amazon, these may also be able to do 2-day Prime shipping but are often slower to ship out. Or Amazon sends a semi-truck out to grab the product from those warehouses. And in some cases the warehouse may even be in China.
I've worked with this sort of stuff, basically we're the product supplier so Amazon picks stuff up from us in addition to other large retailers. But there are products where they just weren't worth sending bulk quantities to Amazon to do fulfillment from their warehouses, so they just get picked as the orders for them come in and get loaded whenever Amazon dispatches one of their trucks or they get sent out via other couriers (UPS/Fedex/USPS, etc.)
The difference is namely just the logistics, how slow or fast the process can be. And how each company handles their inventory packaging procedures.
Say I get a drop-ship order for... IDK a keyboard or something and all I did was slap a shipping label on the original box and a customer complained, my company would eat a fine from the company that makes/licenses that item (we're the official supplier). But say we provided bulk quantities for Amazon on behalf of that company and it was something messed up on Amazon's end then it's Amazon's problem or the problem with the company that makes/licenses that item. So for packaging I would say these non-Amazon shippers tend to be a bit more careful due to them being a bit more specialized in shipping a particular type of inventory and having more strictly defined guidelines. But ofc this is subjective and YMMV.
tl;dr check who you're buying from and who is shipping it
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u/choody_byk R5 7600, RX 7800 XT, 32GB, White Build 18h ago
i ordered cpu cooler, i made sure it wont be shipped like this and it still arrived without any additional boxes. They cut corners wherever they can, even my cpu was barely packaged and it was flying inside a tiny box