{"id":361876,"date":"2010-02-25T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002557"},"modified":"2010-02-24T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:45:41","slug":"amazon-gave-these-ski-poles-room-to-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361876","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Gave These Ski Poles Room To Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nathan didn’t want a gargantuan box with his ski poles, but that’s exactly what he got. Should the poles reproduce and start a society, they will not lack a shelter in which to live.<\/p>\n

He writes:<\/p>\n

I noticed you sometimes post entries on ‘wasteful’ packaging; here’s my brief story.<\/p>\n

I placed an order for ski poles on Amazon; after completing the order, my wife decides she wanted a pair too. As I have Amazon Prime, packages ship quickly so I had to place two orders.<\/p>\n

The first packaged arrived, no problem. The 2nd packaged arrived at my office and the UPS guy had to bring a dolly because he couldn’t carry my package with any other packages for the building. You could probably fit like 40 other poles in that same package.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

At least Nathan got a bonus ski ramp with his order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathan didn’t want a gargantuan box with his ski poles, but that’s exactly what he got. Should the poles reproduce and start a society, they will not lack a shelter in which to live. He writes: I noticed you sometimes post entries on ‘wasteful’ packaging; here’s my brief story. I placed an order for ski […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}