Fun with packing peanuts
Last Wednesday, I was on a mission for supplies. I had a big candle order to mail and totally didn’t have enough packing peanuts. My first stop on the agenda was Staples (an hour south of me). This was my preferred place to get packing peanuts where they come in a bag of 2 cubic feet for $10. Only… this time they were out of the kind I get, having only the biodegradable or recycled or whatever kind which comes in only 1 cubic feet for the same price or more. Anyway.
So I ask the kid if he knows somewhere else I can get some packing peanuts because I refuse to buy the froo-froo ones. And he tells me that the UPS store has some. So we went there. I left Sarah and Elijah in the car and just ran in with my credit card. The first thing I see when I walk in is packing peanuts GALORE. Not surprising, if you think about it, but I had never been in a UPS store before so it didn’t even occur to me to look there, since my local USPS doesn’t carry anything like that (just boxes).
Immediately I ask an employee the price. I’m sold. I purchase a bag and walk out. I almost can’t get it in the back of the Jeep!
So I got to thinking. I spent $32.something on that 14 cubic feet bag as opposed to $10 on 2 cubic feet. Do you see a problem with that picture? The only draw back is that this bag is HUGE, as you can see. It is making my newly organized room look very cluttered. I might be able to find a spot for it in the basement, but I have to be careful not to get it too close to the wood stove! But my only choices there were the big bag or a bag of only 1 cubic feet for $3.something. But anyway, I’m looking at Staples website right now, and I see 7 cubic feet for $42, they have no smaller bags on the website. What the-!?
The funny thing? UPS and Staples are in league somehow where you can ship UPS from within Staples. Or at least the employee I talked to said something about Staples always pushing UPS…
Moral of the Story? Buy packing peanuts from the UPS store from now on!
