I used to receive a lot of hardware, both new and replacement parts, from Dell. This was almost always over packaged, although not to this level. We had an agreement to keep any dead hard drives for destruction, but were constantly receiving the prepaid shipping labels to return them. I was also a bit bored.
Being as I was in possession of a lot of large boxes, prepaid shipping labels, and extra time, Dell received a lot of items they probably didn't want. Broken, decade old CRT's. Empty pizza boxes. Joke e-mails from the spam folder. Autographed take out menus. An entire box fan, disassembled and spread across 2 or 3 boxes. Broken parts left on my parts shelf from Non-Dell machines. Furniture, again disassembled and spread amongst multiple boxes. Leftover Halloween candy. Coupons. Shredded newspaper. Comics section of Newspaper. Half completed crossword puzzles. Flowers. Mostly empty boxes of office supplies. Origami/Paper Airplanes. Crayon drawings of the hard drives. Books on NT3.51. Voltron Stickers. Green plastic army men. Unopened bags of chips. Burger King game peices. Serial mice. Other boxes.
My email address was associated with most of it, and I never received any questions or comments. Interestingly enough, should I fail to ship them something, I'd get a call/email about the hard drive I failed to return, which would result in me digging up the "Keep your Hard Drive" documentation. Should I ship them an empty pizza box, no call came. Should give you some insight as to the tracking methods used. Note that this was a few years ago, and they may have changed.
I always wondered if the parts return department was amused or annoyed by my antics. Perhaps a bit of both, depending on what I sent that day.