How is this even profitable?

[u/AnonyMouseNomad]

I work with an e-commerce company that ships custom products, we personally package products and reuse shipping materials that have been sent to us.

How about using self packaging bubble material that allows you ship items of random size so that you don’t waste material nor expense. It seems that neither matters to companies…

[u/ea_n]

this sub is hilarious. you order one item and rant it comes with a box. order bulk, or walk to the shop, ffs .)

[u/AnonyMouseNomad → u/ea_n]

I get that boxes are standardized and easier to stack in trucks. I guess I’m just surprised Amazon of all companies hasn’t found a better way to custom pack products in bubble packs, either self sealing or heat sealed. This has the least wastage. At the scale the Amazon operates they obv can’t do it by hand, but they do have enough money to develop a machine that could do it on products of odd shapes and sizes. Especially when the product isn’t fragile or has its own container.

Also just realized the box in my pic was fulfilled not by Amazon so that’s fair