I’m not exaggerating in stating that I must have attempted to open hundreds of these boxes, and failed on every attempt. I tried carefully placing my thumbnail on the perforation and all I end up with is a box that crushes under my thumb, and I have to start hacking away at the box.
While this is clearly an extreme version of a first-world problem, I’m beginning to wonder if there isn’t some kind of joke or experiment that is going on here. In the decades that these boxes have been available, you would think that at least one of the engineers responsible for the box design would have actually tried opening a box.