23 Feb
2002
23 Feb
'02
8:14 p.m.
On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, steve wrote:
How is recycling completely reusable packaging and packing materials "bad
practice"?
You don't like trees?
And I don't do a high volume of shipping. Mostly I'm receiving stuff, so
I have a lot of this crap piling up that needs to go somewhere other than
my trashcan.
Who the hell said I was using the wrong sized box? I have a multitude of
boxes to choose from. If an item doesn't fit because the boxes I have are
either too big or too small, I go find another one.
But basically, your argument is bogus.
My HOWTO was
written from the perspective of one who
uses exclusively
recycled packaging products (except for the tape of
course).
This is bad practice, except probably for you and few
others doing high volume shipping. Using my
suggestions is not only far cheaper, it's
environmentally
friendly :)
Well, its cheaper if you already have the "proper"
shipping material, however, using the wrong sized
boxes increases the weight, increases the shipping
cost, increases the probability of damage. I doubt if most people here have access to the
materials you do, in my experience most people don't
have ANY large bubble wrap whatsoever, let alone the
quantities that are needed to properly protect a
package, and probably they have just a half dozen or
so odd shape boxes laying around. These people where
the ones I was targeting.
Ok, so they can go out and buy the materials then, right? I never said
that you MUST use whatever you have laying around and nothing else.
All I am suggesting is that if you are writing a
HOWTO
on shipping, it would help if you write in from (or at
least consider it from) the perspective of a more
"typical" collector.
Ok whatever. Try coming up with an enriching argument next time.
As a side note, your far better to forget the
insurance and use that money to purchase the proper
shipping materials.
The receiver decides if they want their item insured. I'll continue to
use my recycled materials for shipping. You can thank me later when your
children's children can still breathe without the necessity of oxygen
tanks.
P.S. Most people have 80 column displays these days.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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