Hi guys, I know you're doing a hard job and we're all thankful for it, but please, please, in the future, do not put books and especially comics into the green packing peanuts without wrapping them in some kind of envelope.
The peanuts break up into hundreds of pieces on transport, some of them only millimeter-sized. And they are full of static electricity, and they stick to every kind of paper. Hundreds of these little pieces get in between the pages of comics. And they resist being removed due to the electric charges.
I just spent an hour cleaning out the 10 comics I just got, and now I've got my hands covered in the stuff and it won't come off easily.
So, please, please, wrap the comics, or use a packing material that is not susceptible to the static electricity.
Thank you!
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Seconded. The peanuts used to be more robust — never used to have this problem before about 6 months ago. Now it's as if they filling the boxes via some kind of machine that pulverises the peanuts. It takes ages to get all of the polystyrene off the cardboard so that i can put the box in the recycling.
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There is a post where Vic explains why they are using these peanuts instead of the one that they like. Basically the company that owns the patent stopped producing them and isn't going to sell the patent to anyone else so they had to switch. The only real options were these green ones or the cornstarch ones and those tend to break down and leave residue on the books.
Here is the aforementioned post.
Indeed, they convinced me in the above linked thread that they are aware of the peanut problem (sounds like a grade school field trip). The only good option I've seen are the air bags that "the big boys" use (aka Amazon). But the Paizo shipping folks believe they do not protect books adequately. Frankly, after thinking on all of this, I wonder if the crazy "ship a month's worth of orders in a week to contain shipping costs" craziness isn't part of the problem. Complicated by an order management software system that is not up to the task. Alas, I love pathfinder and the creative team, but I have concluded that the economics of scale are against them. I will stick with and continue to cheer them on, while grumbling about peanuts, shipping costs and order management system errors/complexities.
GO PAIZO
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Excellent Charles. You get on that.
I have to disagree with organic packing peanuts leaving a film on things.
Frontier Co-op ships huge items that weight a lot more than books such as huge bottles of laundry detergent and their boxes are huge. Their whole sale orders minimum is 250.00 dollars. I've gotten thousands of dollars of merchandise from them. There is never residue on the items I receive. Maybe it is all in the way they pack their boxes....