Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open hard-to-remove packaging, particularly some heat sealed plastic blister packs and clamshells. Consumers suffer thousands of injuries per year, such as cut fingers and sprained wrists, from tools used to open packages and from the packaging itself. Easy-opening systems are available, when desired, to improve convenience to end-users.
Packaging sometimes must be made difficult to open. For example, regulations dictate that some over-the-counter drugs have tamper resistance to deter unauthorized opening prior to the intended customer and be in child-resistant packaging. Other packages are intentionally made difficult to open to reduce package pilferage and shoplifting.
Hard plastic clamshells also protect the products while they are being shipped. In addition, using transparent plastic allows consumers to view products directly before purchasing them.
The term wrap rage itself came about as a result of media attention to the phenomenon. Although other variants such as packaging rage have been used as early as 1998, Word Spy identifies the earliest use of wrap rage as coming from The Daily Telegraph in 2003. The American Dialect Society identified the term as one of the most useful of 2007.
Wrap rage has been humorously portrayed in popular culture. A notable example is Larry David's wrap rage in the season seven episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm titled "Vehicular Fellatio."
In 2006, Consumer Reports magazine recognized the wrap rage phenomenon when it created the Oyster Awards for the products with the hardest-to-open packaging. A story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about wrap rage was featured on The Colbert Report when host Stephen Colbert tried to use a knife to remove a new calculator from its plastic packaging, to no avail.
A survey in Yours, a magazine aimed at people over 50, found that 99% of the 2,000 respondents said packaging had become harder to open over the last 10 years, 97% said there was "too much excess packaging", and 60% said they had bought a product designed to more easily open packaging. In a survey conducted at the Cox School of Business, almost 80 percent of households "expressed anger, frustration or outright rage" with plastic packaging. Consumers also tend to use words such as "hate" and "difficult" when describing these products.
Consumers sometimes use potentially unsafe tools such as razor blades, boxcutters, and ice picks in their attempts to open packages. In the Yours survey, 71% of respondents said they had been injured while trying to open food packaging. The most common injury respondents had from trying to open packaging was "a cut finger, followed by cut hand, sprained wrist, bruised hand and strained shoulder muscle." According to a British study, over 60,000 people receive hospital treatment each year due to injuries from opening food packaging. The Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that attempts to open packaging caused about 6,500 emergency room visits in the U.S. in 2004. A 2009 study conducted by the Institute for Good Medicine found that 17 percent of adults over the age of 21 were either injured at least once or know of someone who was injured while opening a holiday or birthday gift.
When packagers and retailers are willing, there are many possible solutions to allow easy access to package contents. Easy access, however, can also allow more pilferage and shoplifting. It sometimes adds extra cost to packaging.
The thick plastic of some clamshell packaging makes it difficult to open such packages with ordinary household scissors. More sturdy shears, however, can cut clamshell plastic easily. Medical "trauma shears" are an inexpensive option. Tin snips also make short work of packaging plastic, and the higher mechanical advantage of "compound" metal snips make it possible to cut such packages open even if one has little hand strength.
Some companies are making their packs easier for consumers to open to help reduce wrap rage: Other companies must keep tamper resistant packages. Forces driving the efforts to improve packaging include pressure from consumers and retailers and from senior citizens who find it increasingly difficult to open packaging as they age.
Several methods of making packages easy to open have long been available. These include perforations, "tear strip" tapes, break-open components, etc.
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FIOPS,during the 70s/80s he ran "the kids are UTD"on Radio Alfa a programme dedicated to new sounds from the first punk to new wave. In the same period he DJ'd at the Frog Tuscania, Enigma, Kon Tiki in Ferrara where he also organised a series of concerts (4 By Art,Gaznevada etc...). He moved on from the mid -80 at the FRI_GO' and after at the Zumaya club he gave life every friday to a cult randezvous, uniting his DJ set with live concert once again (Strike,Casino Royale,Mannish blues band, 4 by Art and others). With arrival of the 90s his style underwent a complete musical revolution the Hip Hop culture led him the DJ in several social centers and venues in Ferrara,Padova,Bologna,Rovigo(Daz,Piola,Fabbrika,Livello57,White House) the jewel of that period was the organisation,along Grande Fiume, of "Suona IL Colore" a hip hop convention with rappers,writers,DJs,bringing "Il Colle Der Fomento" To Ferrara the first time. In 2000 he evolved and gave space to the new glitch and indie sounds cooperating with Dedo (home made musician) and some clubs. I remember with affection the cooperation with: Dedo,Grande Fiume Michele Rio,Amae art group, Elodub, Dave Smith, Richard Wilkinson,GG Service, Strike and others DJs and bands. Now I delight in making music with my  MAC,remaining faithful to my ethic of not being a musician. 
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