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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
07/16/2018 at 14:50 • Filed to: None

How many billion of these envelopes?

DISCUSSION (26)

For Sweden > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 14:55

I f you are not an anarcho-primitivist you hate the environment

LOREM IPSUM > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 14:55

winterlegacy, here 'till the end > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:00

It is not a small number. It’s a very big number.

Thomas Donohue > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:01

Yes, but think about how much crude oil we’ve pumped from the ground, further cleaning up that polluted inner-earth. Our core is getting cleaner by the day.*

*not including whatever it is they pump into the shale to get the methane gas out.

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:01

Yeah, I hate these things. Try to combine orders as much as possible if only to get them in a cardboard box that we can recycle (plus, our trash cans that get picked up only every other week are TINY as is, and are mostly filled up with cat litter) .

Are thick paper envelopes that much more expensive for them?

Also finally gave in, went full suburban, and got a Costco membership. Hopefully we’ll be relying on online orders less for regular household items.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Thomas Donohue
07/16/2018 at 15:05

Don’t go there, English.

Kinja'd!!!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ZHP Sparky, the 5th
07/16/2018 at 15:06

I do my best to send all of these back out _in the mail_ so at least they get used a second time.

Thomas Donohue > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:06

Well, they’re not off to a good start.....

Kinja'd!!!

Rock Bottom > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:08

Related-ish: I once ordered some bike parts from Europe and they came in this...

Kinja'd!!!

E90M3 > Thomas Donohue
07/16/2018 at 15:10

* not including whatever it is they pump into the shale to get the methane gas out.

Chems used aren’t really that bad at all.

Chinny Raccoon > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:12

Never seen those before, it’s all cardboard envelopes and mailing wraps. Must be regional.

TechJunky > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:34

It’ll be fewer than expected since the site crashed. My wife had several items she was looking at, but we can’t access any of them via phone or computer, and it looks like that’s happening all over the place.

And I’m actually kind of glad. We don’t use amazon all that heavily anyway, and primarily use prime for the video streaming. But after several other personal annoyances with the service, we’re about ready to pull the plug. The benefits (for us, at least) seem to be diminishing, and even the items we do buy there we can easily buy elsewhere for at least the same price, possibly better. And it’s becoming increasingly more common that free shipping is included. I have no issues actually driving to a store and buying what I need, either.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Rock Bottom
07/16/2018 at 15:40

I don’t want to know what a Comebag is.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Chinny Raccoon
07/16/2018 at 15:41

Kinja'd!!!

The North Pacific Gyre is regional. A very bigly region...

MrDakka > Thomas Donohue
07/16/2018 at 15:42

Keep Hollow Earth clean!

Pump all the oil to the surface dweller scum!

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > TechJunky
07/16/2018 at 15:44

We use it quite often, though not always. When I consider the time and gasoline to go to a store, I’m often money ahead. Did Amazon crash on Prime Day?

Thomas Donohue > MrDakka
07/16/2018 at 15:48

Middle Earthers have been proposing this for years.

Kinja'd!!!

ZHP Sparky, the 5th > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 15:56

Hadn’t thought of that - do you just send them back with your product returns? Or do you mail them back to a specific address? I hope they actually do re-use them instead of tossing them, certainly worth considering if that’s the case.

We’ve gotten a lot more in to buying used things, or repurposing/renovating in many areas of life - often results in spending less money, fewer new things being produced and sold, and we’ve found can result in better quality too (for example redoing old furniture...so much newer stuff is utter crap).

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ZHP Sparky, the 5th
07/16/2018 at 15:58

No, I just reuse them for stuff that I mail. The next recipient probably just tosses it, but at least the material gets used twice.

We like repurposing things also.

The Ghost of Oppo > TechJunky
07/16/2018 at 15:59

The site crashed? Is that why when I click on “Shop All Deals” it just reloads the current page?

Your boy, BJR > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 16:34

All I know is it’s related to D

Urambo Tauro > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 16:53

Huh, they’ve never shipped anything to me in one of those envelopes. So they’re recyclable with grocery store bags, huh? Not bad, considering that’s one of the few forms of plastic I can even get recycled in my area. I can turn in grocery bags, milk jugs, and... not much else. I have no choice but throw a lot of it in the garbage .

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 18:14

I just got one of those envelopes last week, the one t he size of a small house. Big-ass envelope that held one micro SD card. Seems slightly wasteful.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Your boy, BJR
07/16/2018 at 19:06

No clue.

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
07/16/2018 at 19:08

Yes. Perfect.

ranwhenparked > Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
07/16/2018 at 20:36

Forget the Amazon envelopes - what about Wayfair’s packaging? Boxes inside boxes inside boxes packed with layers and layers of styrofoam and everything’s wrapped in yards of plastic. Oh, and sometimes wooden boards for good measure.