Amazon Save the World--- Ha Ha

[Guest]

Ordered on Amazon this little panel saw. 12" long cost £3:50 including postage.


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This is the packaging two boxes and all the packaging. You may be able to spot the panel saw.


Laurie


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[Guest]

I can beat that bought a memory stick and a usb hub, both were when combined less than 1and a half x two inches and they came in a box 3x4 inside another box 24x30 and loads of the little foam bits, wish I'd took some pics

[john i am]

Overkill

[Guest]

Certainly right John.


The resources on this planet are going to disappear at a ridiculous rate if this nonsense continues. Even renewables are not going to keep pace. More rain forests.


Also transport of such idiotic large parcels is going to use up fuel as more flights will have to be made.


Laurie

[Gern]

One of the prices we pay for being able to shop online. It's cheaper for online stores to keep just a small range of different size boxes rather than make individual boxes for every item they sell - Revell have been doing just that for years.


Now, who wants to go back to just dealing with bricks and mortar shops? Anyone?

[flyjoe180]

Now, who wants to go back to just dealing with bricks and mortar shops? Anyone?

What is the comparison in environmental cost of driving a personal vehicle on a return trip to a shop versus a one way trip to your door in a large box I wonder? We want to save the planet's resources but we all want everything yesterday. The internet feeds that desire, we're selfish beings by nature. You should see the parcel cargo that goes on to freight aircraft at night, 90% of it is stuff like Laurie's boxes from online retailers or E-bay equivalents. Tonnes of the stuff. Still probably more environmentally efficient to operate one aircraft than to have everyone drive to different parts of the country to collect their items. But not as environmentally friendly as sending it all by train or truck. But that would mean waiting a few days more...


I'll shut up now, I'll do myself out of a job

[Gern]

Reminds me of something I found some time ago. Come to think of it, I may even have found it on here!


The ‘Green Thing’


Checking out at Tesco, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."


The cashier responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.


Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were re cycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.


We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocers and didn't climb into a 200-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 2000 watts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.


Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Yorkshire. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But we didn't have the green thing back then.


When we were thirsty we drank from a tap instead of drinking from a plastic bottle of water shipped from the other side of the world. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.


Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical socket in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest fish and chip shop.


But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?


Please forward this on to another selfish, grumpy old git who needs a lesson in conservation from a smartass young person.


Remember: Don't make old people mad. We don't like being old in the first place, so it doesn't take much


to piss us off.

[Guest]

I think the problem is Joe that delivery is charged by weight and not volume. If this was in some way changed to include by volume then this would change this stupidity.


Laurie