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Packing Peanuts

CelticCrafter — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:17:59 GMT

Ugh, I hate those things!

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Kachina624 — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:21:31 GMT

Thankfully, they don't seem to be using them anymore. Everything I've gotten needing padding has "pillows" of air-filled plastic. I can't remember the last time I got peanuts.

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chickenbutt — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:22:09 GMT

Now that I'm thinking about it, I cannot remember getting a package with styrofoam peanuts in a long time.

It seems like most now use those air bags or that heavy, rigid, brown paper.

It's a good thing, I suppose. I still have HUGE bags of styro peanuts from when I used to ship a lot. I need to figure something out to do with them.

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CareBears — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:23:58 GMT

@Kachina624 Just last month I ordered a cookbook and they still used the Peanuts, but all other packages have been the padded packages.

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nana59 — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:26:01 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
Thankfully, they don't seem to be using them anymore. Everything I've gotten needing padding has "pillows" of air-filled plastic. I can't remember the last time I got peanuts.

Last time I got peanuts, I was at the circus--but even those days are coming to an end!

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SilleeMee — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:26:39 GMT

One time I received a package full of those peanuts. Inside the box was a note from the company stating that the peanuts they used to pack my items were the kind that dissolved in water! I was so surprised. But I never did put them in water to see if they really dissolved in water and in the trash they went.

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2blonde — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:30:02 GMT

I like the air pillows, but my vitamin company (Puritan's Pride) still uses a ton of those peanuts when they send my rather large orders. First I have to fish the bottles out of the peanut sea, then I have to put all the peanuts into plastic bags so they won't blow all over the condos when I put out the trash. Some of my neighbors just set the boxes out, and those awful things all blow into my patio. When I get home on trash day, sometimes I think there must be a large invisible vacuum cleaner on my back porch!

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CareBears — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:30:29 GMT

@chickenbutt Just a thought, I used to bring mine to a UPS store, they used to welcome them with open arms, it has been a couple of years so I would call them ahead of time to see if this is still the case.

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Shelbelle — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:31:07 GMT

I hate them too, so much static, they stick to everything.

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grandma2pkmh — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:31:58 GMT

@CelticCrafterIf you bag them up, UPS will take them and use them for shipping.

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pattypeep — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:40:22 GMT

When they used to use those, I would save up a big bag and take them to our local UPS store. But the most fun of all was letting my kitty jump in a box full of them. He loved diving in and then two little ears would poke up amidst a sea of white foam peanuts. So cute. That was before I got my cell phone, or I would surely have had a picture of it. Adorable.

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on the bay — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:42:27 GMT

@pattypeep~

What a great way to use something that we hate! So cute!

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Fressa — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:42:34 GMT

I've taken mine to the UPS store. I've also taken them to a packaging store that was in our area.

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gmkb — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:44:23 GMT

At Christmas time I ordered 4 breakable things from the QVC Irish vendor. Each of the 4 boxes came with the peanuts. I accidentally spilled one; what a mess getting that cleaned up! But everything arrived in good condition.

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Lila Belle — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 02:44:56 GMT

I use them when potting large plants and storing delicate items that I don't use often.

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september — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 03:01:18 GMT

My local UPS store stopped accepting these for recycling long ago. They put up a sign at their back entrance where we used to drop them off, telling us not to leave them there.

it seemed to me that most shippers stopped using them, but I did get them in some of the holiday deliveries I received this year...not from the big businesses like Amazon, but from smaller businesses

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chrystaltree — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:43:42 GMT

Honestly, I have received a package that came with them in a very long time. I don't even remember when. Everything comes wrapped in bubble wrap now.

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Lovingq — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:08:12 GMT

Every now and then I receive a package full of styrofoam peanuts. After I remove the item, I tape up the box with peanuts inside and throw the whole thing out in the outside garbage can. It is a pain gathering them up.

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CelticCrafter — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 09:45:43 GMT

@Moretofollow wrote:
Every now and then I receive a package full of styrofoam peanuts. After I remove the item, I tape up the box with peanuts inside and throw the whole thing out in the outside garbage can. It is a pain gathering them up.

That's what I finally did with them even though I would have preferred to recycle the box, it was a matter of sanity!

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viva923 — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:46:40 GMT

the pack peanuts worked wonders. I haven;t had them for awhile.

They stick to everything, almost like a magnet.

awful to clean up.