{"id":1281,"date":"2021-11-06T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T22:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2021-11-06T15:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T22:57:13","slug":"eco-let-me-de-junk-my-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/eco-let-me-de-junk-my-order\/","title":{"rendered":"eco: let me de-junk my order!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you order stuff, you get unwanted crap. Why send me stuff that costs a non-zero amount that I&#8217;m immediately going to throw away or struggle to recycle!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>order food for takeout or delivery, you get sauce packets, chopsticks, plastic utensils, napkins. I usually don&#8217;t want any of this.<\/li><li>order electronics, you get another unwanted USB charger<\/li><li>order other goods, you get unwanted stickers, storage bags, assembly tools, etc.<\/li><li>donate money, you get unwanted bumper stickers, tote bags, Christmas cards, calendars, etc.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A lot of this is cheap goodwill: the customer might want this stuff, so provide it for free. But the real goodwill ensues from giving customers a choice, and I hate companies that send me stuff I didn&#8217;t request. Let me <em>uncheck<\/em> all these items when I order!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a no-brainer for restaurants that assemble each order, though the staff tend to be on autopilot and often include napkins and utensils even if I specifically and repeatedly tell them to leave them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s harder for companies that obsess over having a minimal number of SKUs (stock-keeping units) that end up on the shelf of a reseller such as Amazon; they want to default to having a single box that gets shipped out. But we have robots! It must be possible to pre-assemble, and eventually assemble on the fly, the add-ons that most people don&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you order stuff, you get unwanted crap. Why send me stuff that costs a non-zero amount that I&#8217;m immediately going to throw away or struggle to recycle!? order food for takeout or delivery, you get sauce packets, chopsticks, plastic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/eco-let-me-de-junk-my-order\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}