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To: JoeProBono
Sounds like a new product to market: A "custom-made pump" all shippers must buy to use the new "un-bubble-until-inflated-at-the-labor cost-and-time-to-the-customer" wrap.

I would advise shippers to use the styrofoam "peanuts" instead but as a receiver of such a package .... have you ever tried to get rid of those things? If you accidently spill them it's like herding feral cats to collect them all!

6 posted on 07/03/2015 7:56:45 AM PDT by glennaro
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To: JoeProBono; glennaro
styrofoam "peanuts"…have you ever tried to get rid of those things? If you accidently spill them it's like herding feral cats to collect them all!

Yep. I had a opened box with those “peanuts” sitting on the back seat of my car that fell over when I had to brake hard and those damned peanuts went everywhere. And to make matters worse, I had my car windows open so it was like a mini tornado of Styrofoam and they also got statically charged, I guess from flying around and they stuck to everything - me and the windshield of my car included. I went to the carwash to vacuum them out, but the static charge made most of them jump away before the force of the vacuum could suck them up. Even after cleaning up as many as I could, for almost a year, every couple of days I’d get into my car to find a lone peanut on my seat or on the dashboard or steering wheel - staring at me with their tiny Styrofoam eyes, taunting me, daring me to catch them : ),

I purchase quite a few things from Amazon and notice they do not use bubble wrap or Styrofoam "peanuts” but what I would call air filled pillows:

And surprisingly – no matter how hard you try, they do not “pop”. It takes way to much force to break them and when you finally do, all you get is a very unsatisfying "whoosh".

14 posted on 07/03/2015 8:28:24 AM PDT by MD Expat in PA
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To: glennaro
... use the styrofoam "peanuts" instead but as a receiver of such a package .... have you ever tried to get rid of those things?

You can always dissolve them in gasoline for some do-it-yourself napalm. /s

28 posted on 07/03/2015 10:11:59 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: glennaro
A "custom-made pump" all shippers must buy to use the new "un-bubble-until-inflated-at-the-labor cost-and-time-to-the-customer" wrap.

Reminds me of all the "Bake at Home!" gimmicks I see in the grocery store bread section - at the same price they charged when they had to bake it.

A distant cousin to "Some assembly required".

29 posted on 07/03/2015 12:49:10 PM PDT by Oatka (This is America. Assimilate or evaporate. [URL=http://media.photobucket.com/user/currencyjunkie/me)
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