Problem solved.
Ruh-roh. I’m sensing a carboard box tax in the offing.
MSNBC, where there is not a university degree there worth cra..er...Dorkbamastuff.
Same stuff came to the Walmart in a cardboard box. No story here.
In many ways this is bad for commercial real estate. Those who depend on retail for an occupation.
Now would be a great time to add a national sales tax on all online purchases.
It comes in a box whether you get it at the store or in the mail/UPS/FEDX/Whatever.
I’d been waiting for the environmentalists to get around to this. Those UPS trucks must put out a lot of carbon. Everything humans do is evil.
The serious issue is on jobs with the brick and mortar decline.
The perfect is the enemy of the good, not that environmentalists will ever learn.
Online shopping uses far less fuel overall than mall shopping. One FedEx or UPS truck makes a whole bunch of deliveries, driving less than half a mile per package. The cost is more cardboard for the shipping boxes, but that is a net win. Cardboard is a completely renewable resource, and it overall removes carbon from the atmosphere (in the event that CO2 even matters), since the carbon for cardboard comes from trees that take the CO2 out of the air and that carbon is then sequestered in a landfill.
Just put it in a landfill. Carbon capture.
It’s sure been a pain in #!*^ for me, though I’m starting to see a new trend in packaging. I ordered a couple shirts and they came in a heavy duty flexible plastic package. I hope this is the future.
Problem solved.
This household orders online maybe twice a year. Guarantee that is less cardboard than Algore gets delivered in a week.
I burn my cardboard thereby eliminating all the carbon it contains. Somebody please tell Al to send me my carbon credits.
Only if you are ordering a cardboard cutout. :)
Online shopping has increased our family’s standard of living, by encouraging price competition, lowering prices, increasing choice, and making us aware of products we would not have even known about 20 years ago.
It has also allowed us to retire to a rural setting, freeing up housing in a very congested area. Not that one family makes much of difference, but multiply that by thousands and it is a real effect.