Excessive Packaging

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.

8 ½ x 11 tevdek envelope

And this was the contents.

one small package of size 24 tapestry needles…

I mean really….

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fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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12 Responses to Excessive Packaging

  1. Cat says:

    Well yes of course you need an envelope that size…and Amazon claims to be environmentally aware?

  2. Mark says:

    There is less chance for the package to getting lost. There is probably a standardized size package the machines like.

  3. Mary Lou says:

    Well, a smaller package might have gotten lost in the mail

  4. Robert says:

    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.

  5. Ruth says:

    Yes…confessing to being a regular Amazon shopper. We just recieved two small washing machine parts in a similar package.

    • Holly says:

      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…

  6. Christine says:

    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.

  7. Bob says:

    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.

    • Holly Doyne says:

      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…

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