Nope, not in my case at least. I was talking about packages delivered to me via courier. The Dell netbook was in a small plain cardboard box with foam padding (it was an amazingly small box). The Mac Mini was in its retail box with an added plain cardboard box and minimal egg box style padding. The Dell outlet store laptop had a plain box with foam padding an a cardboard tray with PSU and CDs.

All of them a lot more minimally packed than similar things would have been a couple of years ago.