At an old job, we ordered a NAS (that is, a datacenter NAS with 24 hard drives in a 3U rack shelf) from our typical reseller. The first thing to arrive was a box about the size of a pair of work boots. Opened it up, took out the foam supports, and found a smaller box inside. Opened that, and nestled safely within eggshell padding adhered to the box, was a single sheet of paper: The software license agreement.
This box was overnighted, BTW.
My aunt, deceased now, when she came to Australia for holiday said that when she worked at Slough Poly, she was a secretary, all software updates at the time was delivered by Sercuricor Deliveries in a similar way.
Big box, inside a very small box, loaded with floppies. This was back in the 70's so they would have been BIG floppies.( 8inch??)
Tom.... 