Perhaps Amazon is not your frequent “go to” location for shopping. In the US, it has increasingly become the shopping point of choice.. Most certainly for every one who subscribes to Amazon Prime.
While I was a student, there was a significantly discounted price, which I more than saved in shipping charges those first few months. Since then, I found a military discount. Paying on an annual basis works for me. It also works for everyone else in the household who is a lot more interested in the streaming portion of the services than I.
Personally, I think it is bad enough that Amazon saves my browsing history (which I clear on a regular basis) much less have them able to sell my viewing history to anyone. But that is not why I started down this particular rabbit hole. It was because of a package that came in the mail today.
This package – full US letter paper size.
And this was the contents.
I mean really….
Well yes of course you need an envelope that size…and Amazon claims to be environmentally aware?
I would say this particular time was an epic fail….
There is less chance for the package to getting lost. There is probably a standardized size package the machines like.
Agree – but a standard envelope would have worked just as well!
Well, a smaller package might have gotten lost in the mail
I would agree but for the fact that I get smaller packages all the time!
This I have to agree on.
I have recently started building wooden model ship as my cardiologist suggested I find a hobby.
Long story short I ordered self threading needles and yep came in a huge package.
Yes…confessing to being a regular Amazon shopper. We just recieved two small washing machine parts in a similar package.
great first world problem…. use amazon and really cut the fuel and time used up for delivery since one person and one vehicle delivery hundreds of packages – or spend your time, effort, car, and fuel driving around trying to find the right part.Or spend hundreds on the repair person…
Amazon is doing the same in Germany. Biggest packaging and small content. Well, we usually re-use these boxes and envelopes so it is not totally lost.
It happens to me also, infrequently as I’m not a big shopper. The bubble wrap mailer may have been required to preclude or reduce any chance a needle might have got loose. Some of their packaging has awed me a bit too, but everything ordered has arrived in good shape. Holiday greetings to one and all.
Unfortunately, I am doing a fair amount this way since it spares me the driving, traffic, and frustration! So I have to balance the time and effort it would take me to drive 15 miles each way to purchase the needles vs the waste from Amazon.
So far, Amazon is winning…