These are the packages I LIKE to get. The small ones. The useful ones. The ones where I don’t have to figure out what to do with 20 pounds of packing peanuts. These are the boxes that make my life easier, which is why I order online in the first place!
First, we have the opening shot. I slit the tape and see this…
The packing slip is right on top, right there where I can see it. I can take it right out and use it to check to make sure that all of my items have made it into this shipment, as expected. A good sign so far.
I pick up the packing slip, see that I have 5 items listed (which is what I ordered online- good, their system works!), so I peek inside the box. This is what I see…
The box is packed to the very top….with ACTUAL PRODUCT! I was expecting to see, like most of the packages I get these days, a mountainous delivery of styrofoam peanuts encasing 3 tiny items. I thank my lucky stars that this is not the case today. It wasn’t a fun day, and I didn’t want to have to injure anyone bodily with packing peanuts. Instead of a ton of waste in this box, I found only this…
My order consisted of (1) tube of Biofreeze, (2) cans of Off Smooth & Dry bugspray, (1) can of Coppertone 70+ SPF sunscreen, and (1) bottle of OPI top coat nailpolish. The only interior packaging, which was more than enough to cradle this precious cargo (combustible cans of chemicals!) was an airpack bag, which is pictured on the right side here, and a small piece of bubble wrap around the nailpolish, which I’d already tossed before snapping this picture. It was so well wrapped, after a few choice phrases, I had to cut it off the bottle. That’s perfectly ok though…nothing leaking, punctured, or spilled at all!
And so, I say, KUDOS TO DRUGSTORE.COM!
I’ll be sending a personal note along to them, thanking them for their efforts to reduce waste in their daily shipments. By sending thousands of packages every week, without sending thousands of packing peanuts in each one, they’re keeping lots of space open in our landfills. I’ll be directing them to this post as well, so that they can see we’re singing their praises all over the Internet now, as well as keeping an eye on their shipping practices in the future, so that they’ll continue to keep up the good work for our planet.
Have a green afternoon,
Waste-Knot
~tying ‘em down, ’til they give in for Mama Earth!
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