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Bye bye padded envelopes
I've just done a comparison between posting a book (within France) in three different sets of packaging:
- reuse Amazon cardboard - 3.25 euros (total weight is 300g, over the 250g limit for economy rate, so the package has to go priority rate)
- reuse padded envelope - 3.25 euros (total weight is 260g, so it's still over the 250g limit for economy rate)
- wrap book firmly in opaque plastic film, tape well. Weight comes in at under 200g, and I can send the book economy rate post for 1.80 euros. If I send the book in cardboard or a padded envelope, I'll be paying as much to send it domestically as to send overseas by economy post. That's a significant difference, especially when this is a book I mooched from overseas, therefore costing me three BM points and that I'm sending domestically for one point. My "green" principles don't like having to use plastic film, but the Amazon carton has just gone into the recycling bin and I'll probably strip down the remaining padded envelopes and use the bubble pack plus film.
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