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View Poll Results: What do you think about "packing peanuts" used in shipments? | |||
Love them! |
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1 | 4.55% |
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4 | 18.18% |
Hate them! |
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17 | 77.27% |
Voters: 22. You may not vote on this poll |
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#1 |
EJ205
Real Name: Matt Taylor Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cousin-F*ck, Carolina
Posts: 1,474
Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other...
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Packing peanuts lessen the quality of my day. I will no longer use them, even recycled ones somebody else sent me.
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The Doink
Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 20,335
Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata
Class: PDX/TT-6
The way out is through
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Their only redeeming value is that some of them can pop if you squish them just right. But doing it makes a static-clingy mess just that much messier.
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EJ205
Real Name: Matt Taylor Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cousin-F*ck, Carolina
Posts: 1,474
Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other...
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IMO their redeeming value is the ultra-cheapness and re-usability on outgoing packages. They do the job well enough.
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Little Slugger
Real Name: Kevin Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: North Lake Tahoe, NV
Posts: 777
Car: 05 WRB STI Wagon/00 BRP GC Sedan
Class: 39 TSM
I'm not crazy, I'm just passionate!
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I was just moving some stuff around my garage last night and knocked over an old box with those in there that went everywhere. That reminded me how much I hate those things!
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EJ22
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: NW Reno
Posts: 111
Car: 2003 WRX Sedan - Blue
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I received two shipments of equipment for my lab at work last week FULL of those damn peanuts. They got everywhere; I had to spend a good amount of time vacuuming them up.
Down with packing peanuts!!!!!!!!!! |
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#6 |
(40 percent vodka)
Real Name: Joel Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 4,446
Car: 2004WRX
Class: Baby-Hauler/GroceryGetter
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Just use toilet paper and old magazines.
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EJ251
Real Name: Rob Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Reno
Posts: 679
Car: 2019 CBS WRX Premium
Class: Middle
Shoot for the moon, because even if you miss, you'll still be among the stars
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The only ones I wouldn't mind are the ones that my high school chemistry teacher showed the class once. When you mixed them with water, they dissolved. I think they were made out of some sort of grain product, so they were completely biodegradable and fine to rinse down the sink, once they were dissolved. Being packing peanuts, they would still be annoying, but at least they wouldn't fill up landfills as much.
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The Doink
Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 20,335
Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata
Class: PDX/TT-6
The way out is through
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EJ22T
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Reno
Posts: 9,445
Car: '93/'01 GF6, mostly red
Class: 19 FP
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As a former shipping/packing monkey... these thing suck.
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EJ205
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 1,840
Car: Impreza and an Impreza
Class: AS / CRS PerfStock
"pedal on the right"
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Its nice to just dump them in when you are shipping something, esp if you hate the person you are shipping an item to.
also you can pack them under someones seats you don't like and when they open their windows ..... muahahaha ![]() |
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(40 percent vodka)
Real Name: Joel Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 4,446
Car: 2004WRX
Class: Baby-Hauler/GroceryGetter
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I like the snow globe idea. Thanks Alex
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#12 |
EJ205
Real Name: Matt Taylor Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cousin-F*ck, Carolina
Posts: 1,474
Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other...
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Email to one of my suppliers today:
" Got it. Thanks. But just know that there is a special place in hell reserved for people who ship with packing peanuts. " |
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Candy Mountain
Real Name: Cody Join Date: May 2005
Location: Californication
Posts: 7,751
Car: 03 Pussy Wagon, now with more pink!
Class: TESP
OMG Internet!
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We switched over to the little air bag thingys at my work.
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Señor Cheap Bastarde
Real Name: Dean Join Date: May 2003
Location: $99 Tire Store
Posts: 9,294
Car: $.04 STI
Class: Fast,Cheap & Reliable=STI
Deal, did somebody say Deal? Oh, Dean, yeah that's me.
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I use/recycle them, but put them in used/recycled tied off plastic grocery bags. They can be molded around anything, but do not become an aggravation.
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EJ205
Real Name: Matt Taylor Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cousin-F*ck, Carolina
Posts: 1,474
Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other...
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El Matador
Real Name: Matt Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 10,660
Car: 2012 Toyota Tacoma
Class: ?
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With all the shipping and warehousing brass on this board, I assume one of us could hook you up with a solution...
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EJ22T
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Reno
Posts: 9,445
Car: '93/'01 GF6, mostly red
Class: 19 FP
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That 2-part chemical foam stuff is awesome. Nice wow-factor when people open their packages.
IBTWSS
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The Doink
Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 20,335
Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata
Class: PDX/TT-6
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I used to way over use that crap. You could always tell which boxes I had packed 'cause they were round with foam leaking out the corners.
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EJ205
Real Name: Matt Taylor Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cousin-F*ck, Carolina
Posts: 1,474
Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other...
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EJ22T
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Reno
Posts: 9,445
Car: '93/'01 GF6, mostly red
Class: 19 FP
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EJ205
Real Name: Matt Taylor Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cousin-F*ck, Carolina
Posts: 1,474
Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other...
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'Twas meant to be ironic...
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EJ205
Real Name: Matt Taylor Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Cousin-F*ck, Carolina
Posts: 1,474
Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other...
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Seriously, I have never bought a packing peanut before - not even one, but I can't throw them away. Kinda a cross between Senor Cheap Bastard and a Senor Tree Hugger. So I usually pass on the love to somebody else in the shipping chain. I might try stuffing them in plastic bags for filling voids, but I anticipate regretting it. Sounds like a good job for pseudo-slave child labor. "Here, Alex/Auds, stuff all these bags with packing peanuts until there are no peanuts left. Oh, and be sure to clean up the mess before you are done."
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EJ205
Real Name: Austin Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: South Reno, NV
Posts: 1,406
Car: 2006 WRB WRX TR, 2008 LR STI
Class: Too classy
Dont sweat the petty... Pet the sweaty.
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Who voted "love them!"?!
anyway..... Whenever I receive a package with them, I try and pull the item out of the box without any of them spilling out of the box.. It hasn't worked yet. The little white bastards always seem to make a mess that I don't feel like dealing with. They all need to burn in hell.
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SECCS Brewmeister
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: on the edge of a marsh
Posts: 1,451
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I hate packing peanuts...or as my grandma called them "ghost farts". they end up everywhere in your house and on your clothes for weeks, kind of like hooking up with a chick who's wearing glitter.
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EJ205
Real Name: Khail Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Reno, NV
Posts: 1,769
Car: 2016 VW GTI
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What I really love is when some idiot eBay seller ships me a car stereo, amp or subwoofer in a huge box half filled with styrofoam peanuts. I guess they think the shipper will know or care what's in the box and be super careful not to turn it over. Also, the idiot seller will never wrap the item in plastic before tossing all the peanuts in, meaning I get to spend my time taking apart a $300 stereo and picking all the broken little pieces out of the inside.
I hate packing peanuts with a passion. |
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