Director of Sales
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Ugh did I really need a box filled with the stupid peanuts for four soft cover books, the thickest of which was the AP issue?
I'm renewing the call to get rid of the peanuts! Airbags!!!!!!!! Or heck even those weird shaped cardboard thingies.
We use peanuts when it is appropriate, and the corners when it is appropriate. Despite knowing that a box full of peanuts is messy and really annoying, a box full of damaged books is much moreso. :) We have explored using airbags, but they have the dual problems of being more expensive and not protecting books as well as the peanuts.
Thanks,
cos
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May be time for an alternative?
I like this alternative idea.
I was honestly surprised my softcovers didn't come in an envelope like they normally do.
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Chief Technical Officer
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May be time for an alternative?
The peanuts we use are 100% recycled material. (We do regularly look at new options.)
I like the peanuts. I received my order today and the post office severly damaged the box but my entire order was in perfect condition. The peanuts work great.
We have explored using airbags, but they have the dual problems of being more expensive and not protecting books as well as the peanuts.
I can attest to this! Airbags do NOT protect hardcovers well at all, and are a lazy way of packing. ZERO side protection.
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May be time for an alternative?I was really hoping the alternative would be pistachios.
Well, the pistachio hulls, maybe, in some form.
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Chief Technical Officer
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Well, the pistachio hulls, maybe, in some form.May be time for an alternative?I was really hoping the alternative would be pistachios.
It's all well and good until it kills somebody with a nut allergy....
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It's all well and good until it kills somebody with a nut allergy....Well, the pistachio hulls, maybe, in some form.May be time for an alternative?I was really hoping the alternative would be pistachios.
...then it becomes HILARIOUS.
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I'm just kidding. A person suffering from a severe nut allergy is no laughing matter.
I, too despise styrofoam peanuts. Not as much as Circus Peanuts, but still. However, if they do work best, I'll find a way to muddle through.
But is there some way to make them *not* stick to, well, everything?
AJ
Mmmm.... Peeps.
I hadn't had one of those things in years, but my son came home from Sunday School with a few in his Easter basket and I stole one. Then I had to go hit the after-Easter clearance at Walmart and buy me a whole box for 25 cents.
Oh, yeah, topic. I hate packing peanuts too, not least because my kids tend to get into them and scatter tiny pieces of styrofoam all over the house. But I saved up a couple of kitchen bags full and took them up to my local mailing-services storefront and they practically threw me a parade. So you can recycle them on your end too, customers!
I think we can all agree that the packing peanuts should be replaced with Lilith's baked goods.
If you use the cornstarch-based packing peanuts, they are both biodegradable and fun. Dampen them and stick them together to build stuff.
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If you use the cornstarch-based packing peanuts, they are both biodegradable and fun. Dampen them and stick them together to build stuff.
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Those would be a great improvement over the regular Styrofoam peanuts, but how do they compare cost wise?
I agree here, and you can not only build things with them, but totally dissolve them. Gets rid of the problem of me having to recycle a box full of packing peanuts....
But if the cornstarch ones even get damp in the box, its a mess.
But if the cornstarch ones even get damp in the box, its a mess.
And with all the complaints about packages being left out in the rain and books getting wet, that would just be an added hassle.
Why is there not more support for the box being packed with Lilith's baked goods?
Why is there not more support for the box being packed with Lilith's baked goods?Because this would require us sending them away.
Share the wealth, man. ;)
Many moons ago, when I was pretending to be a telecom engineer, we had a vendor that sold us refurbished AT&T/Lucent phone sets.
The phones were shrinkwrapped in plastic/cellophane, and the box filler was M&Ms or Reese's.
I loved that vendor.
Sadly, they were so successful, a bigger company bought them, and decided that candy filler wasn't cool, and stopped.
I have yet to find anyone else doing anything on that scale. Today, a company called Retrotel sells refurbed stuff, and will include a packet of M&M's or Peanut M&M's with each Nortel phone set that we buy, which is cool, but not nearly as many M&Ms :(
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The phones were shrinkwrapped in plastic/cellophane, and the box filler was M&Ms or Reese's.
I'm sure if the box was left in the hot summer sun the box of awesome would quickly turn into a box of wtf.
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Chief Technical Officer
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I'm sure if the box was left in the hot summer sun the box of awesome would quickly turn into a box of wtf.
The phones were shrinkwrapped in plastic/cellophane, and the box filler was M&Ms or Reese's.
I know m&ms melt in your mouth, not your hand, but I don't think they make any claims about in boxes on the porch.
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I know m&ms melt in your mouth, not your hand, but I don't think they make any claims about in boxes on the porch.
Using shredded paizo campaign test notes/data would be an awesome packing material ;)
