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An exasperated Amazon customer has posted a video of 62ft of wrapping paper snaking through his house - that was used to "protect" dog food.
Nick Taylor said the box used to deliver the bag of food was "big enough to live in" and claimed the food didn't need to be packaged at all.
Nick laid out the 19-metres of packaging paper in his home in Bath and posted the video to Amazon's Facebook page.
The trail starts in what appears to be a utility room and leads in to a dining area before entering the kitchen itself.
From there the paper enters the hall, where the dog food can be glimpsed in its heavy plastic packaging.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/exasperated-amazon-customer-films-62-12259048
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Exasperated Amazon Customer Films 62 FEET of Wrapping Paper Used to "Protect" Bag of Dog Food
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 01 2018, @09:22PM (1 child)
Once a week, I get a bunch of ads in my mailbox.
There's about a dozen ads from grocers alone, plus car dealers, furniture stores, restaurants, and TV content companies.
For decades, before there was bubble wrap or foam sheeting on a roll or packing peanuts, folks used such "newsprint" for packing material.
If I was running a small business that shipped things, I'd have enough padding from my personal mail to cover a few items a week.
If the operation was a bit larger, I'd give each of my neighbors a pasteboard box where they could toss their junk mail so that I could gather that up on a prearranged day.
N.B. In years past, the printed content on paper used as packing material in things shipped to me I have found interesting: Local stories from the sender's area and ads from local retailers have caught my eye.
Back in the day (and it's still a thing to some extent), folks would put themselves on many mailing lists in order to get lots of junk mail.
Some folks in cold climates rolled the stuff into fireplace logs and used it for winter fuel.
I'm saying that our throwaway society sees a lot of stuff as "waste" rather than re-purposing that.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 02 2018, @02:25AM
Using free paper to protect your packages costs more than buying bubble wrap in bulk or finding free bubble wrap or air bags. The plastic weighs a lot less. When shipping is free, every way to minimize shipping costs* is employed by the seller.
*Time is included in the cost as well as money
Source: I sell stuff on eBay and am a part of that community.