Saturday, June 23, 2018

TAKING NO CHANCES

SWMBO uses some prescription eye drops for glaucoma and ordered a refill yesterday from an on-line pharmacy.

We thought you might like to see the precautions the business takes when shipping to a customer in a part of the country where the temperature is hovering around 100 degrees.

The doorbell rang today and when I opened the door I found this on our doorstep as a Fedex truck was pulling away.


Upon opening the box SWMBO was first confronted with some plastic-wrapped padding.


In the center of which were several packets of well-frozen ice.

In the center of those were Judy's eye-drops, in their three little boxes which were in a sealed plastic bag.


They arrived very promptly and very cold and very safe.

But if you ever wondered about those stories of too much plastic discarded in Mother Earth's environment . . .


12 comments:


  1. Cakes ordered a SCARF and it was wrapped in plastic, in a plastic bag and then packed in bubble wrap...a damn scarf. It's insane.

    We feel your pain and outrage.

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  2. Judy's eyedrops do need to be protected from the heat, especially if no one is home when delivery is made, and we know that but the packaging seemed a bit excessive.

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  3. Like the meniscus transplants... no joke.

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  4. The critical question, of course, is how do the cats like the new box?

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  5. Forget the zombie apocalypse--the scourge on the horizon are card board boxes and plastic wrap from on line shopping.

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  6. I understand the company protecting itself and the well-being of the purchaser. There should be an alternative --refrigerated transport, storage, perhaps reusable thick glass containers that could hold the lower temperature longer. I believe I have just described our 1950s milkman.

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  7. Someone sent us a honey baked ham when we lived in Colorado during the heat of summer. It came in a nifty REUSABLE foam cooler which we kept in the back of the car for groceries. The ham and cheesecake were surrounded with REUSABLE ice packs which we still use today. I don't understand why plastic bags came on the scene when paper bags were useful for so many things and were easier to carry groceries in.

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  8. William - Blackwell has inspected the box but has not climbed inside it yet. Strange for him.

    Lori - The last couple of times the eye drops came they were in a small foam cooler, too. We have them around here somewhere but they're only good for keeping about one beer cold. And we do save and reuse the ice packs that came today.

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  9. Hick uses those eye drops, and keeps his prescription in FRIG II. So I know that it must be kept cool. Kudos to your shippers for accomplishing that feat.

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  10. Of course, there is plastic usage....and plastic usage. A very distressing documentary on UK TV has shown baby seagulls with so much plastic in their stomachs that there was no room for food. I doubt that Earth will end in a nuclear holocaust, or a asteroid hit. It will end with mankind being drowned in his own waste and filth.

    There are legitimate uses for plastic, an example of which you showed us. But there are many which have no environmental legitimacy.

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  11. Good grief! That IS a boatload of plastic. I wonder if there's a more environmentally sound way to keep things cool during shipping. What if it had all been packed in paper, with a cold pack at the center? Seems like that would have been sufficient. But what do I know.

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