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0 pointsmips_r4300i2y ago0 comments

Ordered a new cable modem and received it today.

They put the shipping label ON the retail packaging. No box! This is FBA. Of course it was scuffed and scraped all to hell.

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woleium2y ago· 1 in thread

This is an option at checkout, they default to “minimize packaging, use the box it comes in”, but you can opt out.

Personally i think this is a great move that reduces overpackaging and its associated environmental impact

bmitc2y ago

> Personally i think this is a great move that reduces overpackaging and its associated environmental impact

I've chosen to do Amazon's Amazon Day Delivery service several times, but I have stopped doing it, basically without a choice. It's guaranteed to worsen the packaging. They just throw everything in a big enough (normally bigger than it needs to be) box and put a piece of paper in there and call it good. It's just unacceptable. Plus, their incentives for doing so are not good, often non-existent, and you are still paying the full Prime price, which keeps increasing.

Cthulhu_2y ago

In theory, the boxes that items come in - especially electronics - should be good enough for shipping, they're often full of padding and the exterior is glossy / lightly water resistant; I've ordered a few items that came without a box like that, it's fine, the packaging has no value. It's more that retailers can be anal about box quality because that's how items were sold at one point.

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