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Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes:
Amazon wants to make massive, hard-to-open boxes a thing of the past, according to a Tuesday report. Last fall, the e-commerce giant asked companies to make packaging for larger items more efficient and easier to open by Aug. 1, The Wall Street Journal reports. If companies don't follow suit, they'll reportedly be charged a fine.
The changes Amazon reportedly hopes to roll out would make packages more environmentally friendly and cut back on shipping costs. Amazon wants all items to eventually meet similar standards, according to the Journal.
Vendors told the Journal they reduced the volume of their packaging anywhere from 34% to 80%. Some also cut down on the number of components used to ship their products.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Taibhsear on Wednesday July 31 2019, @03:22PM (2 children)
Buying stuff for work tends to be shipped in wholly oversized boxes for unknown reasons. I recently was sent individual sheets of stickers for labeling. They could have been put in a simple letter sized paper envelope and would have been fine. They consistently sent single sheets of the stickers in 1ft^3 boxes with large fill bubble wrap. It was so completely unnecessary and wasteful.
(Score: 2) by darnkitten on Wednesday July 31 2019, @08:07PM (1 child)
I get individual pens in boxes large enough to fit an 8 year-old child.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday August 01 2019, @06:40AM
What a waste of space! Get a pen sized for the age of the child! Snow may be of no use at all on this topic.