By large I mean by area, not [necessarily] density or weight. Preferably something that isn’t collapsable or capable of being easily disassembled. I want the delivery of the item to be a major pain in the ass.
Whatever you end up doing, OP, you owe us a pic or video of the result!
I signed up for it and didn’t tell my husband. Wish me luck. Haha
You can order packing peanuts for ~$5/ft^3 and some places will do free shipping over a certain value. There are also decorative balloon bunches, though I don’t know about price there.
Liquids would also work. Heavy, sloshy, awkward, etc. and you don’t want to drop them because it’d make a mess.
What do they pack them in?
In themselves, of course!
a dictator’s massive ego
Can’t you buy stars on websites online
that only really buys you a piece of paper that says: “you own this star”.
otherwise i guess i could sell you the universe for 1 penny, which would make for a fun answer to OPs question.
Air, cuz it’s free, and by size the biggest object in our planet
No way, at all. The Earth itself isn’t air and has WAY more volume than the atmosphere.
You shouldn’t think big, necessarily, you should think heavy. Postage to be paid on delivery.
Lead sheet in a return envelope is a great thank you for unsolicited application offers.
I know this one, it’s skin!
Can you still buy a star? Obviously dubious that you actually own it. But certainly bigger than anything on earth and a bit tricky to deliver.
This reminds me of an old Reddit writing prompt that I got a good chuckle from. Something along the lines of “humanity discovers FTL travel, and is invited to join the Galactic Federation. The federation goes out of its way to accommodate incoming species, and part of that intake process involves respecting existing legal structures and contracts… They just realized humans have been selling stars to each other for centuries.”
I am curious what the purpose of this is
To spite either a delivery person or the person the item will be delivered to.
Drywall. Heavy, fragile, 2 out of 3 dimensions are relatively large. Easy to transport when you’re stacking them in a truck but difficult up the stairs for example.
Bubble wrap. Cheap-ish per m³ if taking up space is more important but Easy to carry a roll of that around alone.
What the hell? I ordered them to Germany and shipping cost next to nothing. Or exactly nothing, if I remember correctly. 10 bags were like $180, shipping included. Or is that some Trump era garbage? My order was about 4 years ago.
Horse manure tends to be free around these parts
By area, my first thought was something like gravel. Relatively cheap, and covers a large area. However, delivery is relatively simple. They just load it up to a dump truck, and they dump it where ever. For things that are pain in the ass to deliver, I think about wind turbine blades and such, which aren’t exactly cheap. I think if your goal is to spite the delivery people on the cheap, I’d say cat litter. They don’t come in bulk the way gravel does, so someone has to move it box by box.
I think if you’re looking for largest volume of material to dump on your enemy per its cost, your best options are either going to be dirt or possibly a huge amount of expanded polystyrene, i.e. styrofoam. If you’re doing this outside I think dirt is a better option, unless you can find somewhere to source really huge blocks of styrofoam. A thousand cubic feet of packing peanuts (approximately $2714) would certainly be funny, but they’d probably be prone to blowing away. That’s no good if you want the mark having a tough time getting rid of them.
For reference, a thousand cubic feet is around the same size as a school bus.
