Packing Peanuts

CelticCrafter · ‎03-09-2010

Ugh, I hate those things!

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

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 · ‎03-09-2010

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.

CareBears · ‎08-30-2015

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

nana59 · ‎05-12-2012

@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!

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

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.

2blonde · ‎03-10-2010

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 · ‎08-30-2015

@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.