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> "How hard could it be?"

Having worked on something that required "optimal" box packing for deliveries[1], the answer is "very, and then some (and that was with the help of that fancy USMIL pallet-packing algorithm, IIRC)".

[1] They wanted to use the smallest possible box plus some other constraints like "product X cannot have anything on top of it", etc.



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