Amazon.com Offers Deliveries in Reusable Totes
Amazon.com is giving some Washington state residents the choice to get shipments in reusable tote bags with its AmazonTote delivery program. Read More
Amazon.com is giving some Washington state residents the choice to get shipments in reusable tote bags with its AmazonTote delivery program.
The service allows people to receive purchases up to twice a week, with products delivered in bags that close, are sealed and are weather resistant. Customers are able to keep the bags or leave them to be picked up when their next shipment comes.
The service, which doesn’t carry any added fee, is only available for items under 50 pounds that are sold and packaged by Amazon, keeping out goods from businesses that sell through Amazon, but that still leaves millions of items eligible for the service.
AmazonTote is currently only available to people within 21 ZIP codes in Seattle and elsewhere in Washington. Delivery dates are assigned based on ZIP code.
Over the previous years, Amazon has been using its status as largest U.S. online retailer to try out new packaging and shipping concepts. It launched its Frustration-Free Packaging program in late 2008 to start offering products in simple, easy-to-open, more-recyclable packaging. By late 2009 it had more than 70 items under its Frustration-Free banner, and now there are over 7,000 products, mainly electronics, being shipped in Frustration-Free packaging.
Throughout all that, Amazon created a simple feedback form for customers to use to rate packaging and note if items are being overpackaged and provide enough protection.
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