Wow. Just got a bottle of obnoxious stuff (an isothiocyanate) from Alfa Aesar. The liquid was in a bottle in a bubble bag in a bag in a can (with padding) in a bag in a box (with peanuts) in a bag in a box =>
box(bag(box(bag(can(bag(bubble(bottle(liquid))))))))
If only the exterior layer was refractory the bottle might withstand reentry from orbit. This one takes the prize for the most shipping layers of protection. At least it isn’t radioactive.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Maybe the kept wrapping it until they couldn’t smell it anymore, lol.
Nothing like capping off your olfactory tissues with thiourea groups.
This must have come from Aldrich’s infamous Department of Redundancy Department…
I was actually surprised to see that Alfa was more obsessive about it than Aldrich.
I got a nice paint can and a couple of ziploc bags out of the deal. Paint cans are always useful for something. In my previous job we used to polymerize lactide to PLA in small paint cans as a kind of use test. Now I just use them for disposing of broken glass and silica gel.
There… I fixed it for you:
#include PackageTypes.h
Chemical shipStinky(String *Name) {
Chemical return(box(bag(box(bag(can(bag(bubble(bottle(Name)))))))));
}
Golly, I don’t know what to say …
They weren’t serious unless the wooden box was nailed with reverse serrated nails. Try extracting those and the heads shear off. The razor-edged stubs make for a bloody lesson in safety.
“How do you open the box?”
“With a half bastard file.”
“Yeah, right.”
They generally come back for the file.
I haven’t received anything in a wooden box in quite some time. Used to be that bottles of nBuLi and tBuLi would come in those dandy boxes. More than a few saw extended service propping a vacuum pump or some such thing.