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Pregnant? Asthmatic? Don't Like Rollercoasters? Stay Away From NYC Elevators And Escalators
Unless you're willing to risk being stranded with 14 other passengers several stories underground in a cattle car elevator on a hot summer day, or plunging at extreme speeds down an escalator with a broken chain, you might want to steer clear of NYC's subway system lifts. The New York Times has published the results of an extensive investigation that includes tales of daily breakdowns, comically undertrained mechanics, and about $1 billion spent over the past decade. More »
stupid shipping gang
Canon Uses Comically Oversized Box To Send You Something They Could Have Taped To A Postcard
Earlier this week I ordered a part from Canon USA Service for one of my Canon cameras and it arrived today. I am impressed for the fast shipping but not so much by the efficiency of the packaging.Additional photo inside. More »
stupid shipping gang
From the looks of David's package, Dell isn't close to honoring its promise to switch to alternative packaging within the next two months. This obscenely large box contained nothing more than a 2GB flash drive. David's son snapped a few pictures, which appear as an eerie slideshow after the jump.
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Dell Still Ships Tiny Items In Massive Boxes
From the looks of David's package, Dell isn't close to honoring its promise to switch to alternative packaging within the next two months. This obscenely large box contained nothing more than a 2GB flash drive. David's son snapped a few pictures, which appear as an eerie slideshow after the jump.
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Should American Airlines Have Flown Five Overbooked Passengers Across The Atlantic In An Empty Plane?
American Airlines managed to rebook all but five passengers after canceling one of its four daily flights from Chicago to London. The five still needed to get to London, so American rustled up an empty plane and invited everyone up to business class. Seems nice, but Friends of the Earth is outraged that American burned 22,000 gallons of fuel for five passengers. Great customer service or eco-scandal? Vote in our poll, after the jump. More »
stupid shipping gang
What's Inside This Big Box From IBM?
Ooo, what could be inside this box that IBM shipped to a reader—retail-packaged software? Peripherals? Maybe a hard drive with air padding? A logo-emblazoned hoodie? Monogrammed pencils? A kitten? More »
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Dell has promised to stop shipping individual CDs in 10x19x10 boxes after Christian over at Technologist for Hire posted a rant about Dell's growing love for wasteful packaging.
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Dell: Let's Ship Tiny CDs In Massive Boxes!
Dell has promised to stop shipping individual CDs in 10x19x10 boxes after Christian over at Technologist for Hire posted a rant about Dell's growing love for wasteful packaging.
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Wal-Mart Joins The Stupid Shipping Gang
A reader writes, "As part of our Christmas shopping; we ordered several DVD's, video games, and a phone card from Wal-Mart's website." The items trickled in over several days, then "this showed up. A 10X11X5 inch box, an air-filled air bubble, and one thin phone card taped to the bottom of the box."Companies, this has got to stop! It's wasteful and annoying. It's stupid. It can't cost that much to hire someone to put together a shipping program that uses different package sizes for different types of products. More »
packaging
Crate & Barrel's Wooden Spoon Packaging Is Very Efficient
Reader Mark says:I recently ordered two wooden spoons, a wooden spatula and a silicone spoon rest from crateandbarrel.com - all in the same transaction. Today I received these two big boxes! One box (10x7x20) held ONE 13.5" spoon. The other box (13x13x7.5) held the other spoon, spatula and spoon rest.More »
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What Goes Into A Foot-Long Toys R Us Receipt?
Toys R Us rewarded Greg's purchase of a four-pack of Play-Doh with an 18-inch receipt. Greg tried to give the senseless printing an inch of meaning by breaking down the components of his massive receipt:
- Exciting Sweepstakes Offer: 4.5 inches
- Essential Purchase Details: 6.5 inches
- Gift Receipt Section: 7.75 inches
Complete Receipt Defeat [An Entirely Other Day]
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green
Fresh Direct To (Eventually) Stop Using Those Awful Cardboard Boxes
FreshDirect is finally doing away with the awful cardboard boxes! (For those of you who are unfamiliar, it's like Peapod but in New York City, and not as good.) One of the main problem with Fresh Direct (from a customer standpoint) is that they pack everything in cardboard boxes. More »
sustainability
How Many Earths Would It Take To Sustain Your Lifestyle?
"Consumer Consequences" is an online "game" where you enter data about your living, work, travel, energy, and eating patterns, then see how many earths would be needed to sustain your lifestyle if every single person on the planet did the same thing. It's a relatively fun way to graphically tally up your environmental footprint, and helps you highlight where you use the most resources (and, ideally, where you can therefore cut costs). More »
groceries
FreshDirect Packaging Is Extremely Wasteful
FreshDirect is a grocery delivery service that is very handy if you, like many urbanites, do not have a car. Sadly, we have to limit our Fresh Direct usage to the 2 weeks before we move, because they pack everything in huge, mostly empty cardboard boxes. It's insane. More »
tsa
TSA Misses 90% of Bombs At Denver Airport
Whoops. If what the TSA's Red Team (the group that tests airport security with simulated bombs) found at a recent test of Denver Airport is representative of the whole, it may be tougher to sneak a tube of toothpaste onto an airplane than it is to smuggle a bomb. From 9News, Denver:Sources told 9NEWS the Red Team was able to sneak about 90 percent of simulated weapons past checkpoint screeners in Denver. In the baggage area, screeners caught one explosive device that was packed in a suitcase. However later, screeners in the baggage area missed a book bomb, according to sources.More »
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IKEA To Charge $.05 for Plastic Bags In Effort To Reduce Consumption
According to Treehugger, IKEA will be charging $.05 for each plastic bag starting March 15 in an effort to encourage environmentally responsible behavior. IKEA will also be reducing the price of their re-usable blue shopping bags (also known as the greatest laundry bag ever) to $.59 from $.99. From Treehugger:Proceeds of up to $1.75 million (that's a whole lot of bags) from the bag campaign will go to American Forests, the nation's oldest non-profit citizens conservation organization, to plant trees to restore forests and offset CO2 emissions,..IKEA projects that the number of plastic bags used by their U.S. customers will be reduced by at least 50% from 70 million to 35 million in the first year. This program was launched in IKEA stores in the UK in late Spring 2006, and reduction has been an impressive 95 percent.The program was very popular in the UK, and we love those IKEA shopping bags, so we're all for it. We imagine, however, that a lot of people won't be.—MEGHANN MARCO More »
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