Rant… but completely justified.
I ordered some things from Joann Fabrics, nothing spectacular, but some items that had been closed out of my nearby store (which have been pretty popular for my http://memory-beads.com website) and I thought i would order some before they were totally unavailable.
These were several strings of metal “open angel” charm beads which I end up putting polymer clay and flower petal mixture into.
So the shipping for these items was horrendous, I almost didn’t purchase them because of shipping costs… and when the box arrived…. I was so dumbfounded that they would put items (shown in my pix) which would have easily slipped into a 4 x 6 bubble mailing envelope into a box of 5″ x 12″ by 18″.. and filled it with the air pouches, which of course did nothing for keeping the items in place as they were off in the corner anyway.
How ridiculous: no body home in management? no body thinking about the planet and conservation? no body thinking about land fill; no body thinking about space and freight; Anybody home at Joann Fabrics online mailing service?