• 0xD@infosec.pub
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    8 months ago

    This is speculation, but it’s probably a lot faster and cheaper to just pack and ship instead of collecting first, and then packing and shipping.

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      8 months ago

      I can’t see it being cheaper, since those packages aren’t free. Faster? Not sure about that, either. Amazon automates a lot of their process, and the separate items would still need to gather in one place to be shipped together anyway. Packing a half dozen separate items is surely less efficient than packing everything in one box.

      Again, this wasn’t a problem a few years ago, when everything would come in a single box. The greenwashing by Amazon about their plastic bags is 10 steps backwards, IMO.