Earth Day
On Earth Day, I thought I'd post a little about our environmental philosophy. It was something I had intended to some day put on our website, but never got around to it. We've been around since 1992, and at that time I was a DJ at KCSB. At KCSB I would see tons of padded envelopes thrown out and figured I might as well use them to ship CDs for my business. In addition, I'd get the cardboard LP mailers that were headed for the recycle bin. In 1993, I moved to Colorado and hooked up with KGNU, and I've been cleaning them out of envelopes and mailers ever since.
In addition, I'm always on the lookout for boxes I can use for shipping. Of course I keep any boxes that were sent to me, but often they are too big to use for anything but wholesale orders. My local supermarket is the mother lode for cardboard boxes. My kids do the shopping with me and always get excited when they see someone stocking the shelves because they know we'll get some boxes "for daddy's business."
If you've bought anything from us, you've no doubt noticed that we print invoices on the back of used paper, anything from journal articles to my kids' scribbles. (Some folks have told us they get a kick out of reading the backs of the invoices.) I'm downright fanatical about not printing on a virgin piece of paper, even if it's recycled. Of course, there are times when I'm writing a letter and for those I will use blank (but recycled) paper.
I'm proud to say that with all the CDs/LPs/books/shirts/etc. we've shipped in 12+ years we've never used a new envelope (we did once have several boxes of new padded envelopes that were given to us by someone who had no use for them), almost never used a new box (I just remember that when we sold 85 copies of Damon Albarn's "Democrazy", we used flattened Priority Mail boxes that we got from the post office).
Happy Earth Day!
In addition, I'm always on the lookout for boxes I can use for shipping. Of course I keep any boxes that were sent to me, but often they are too big to use for anything but wholesale orders. My local supermarket is the mother lode for cardboard boxes. My kids do the shopping with me and always get excited when they see someone stocking the shelves because they know we'll get some boxes "for daddy's business."
If you've bought anything from us, you've no doubt noticed that we print invoices on the back of used paper, anything from journal articles to my kids' scribbles. (Some folks have told us they get a kick out of reading the backs of the invoices.) I'm downright fanatical about not printing on a virgin piece of paper, even if it's recycled. Of course, there are times when I'm writing a letter and for those I will use blank (but recycled) paper.
I'm proud to say that with all the CDs/LPs/books/shirts/etc. we've shipped in 12+ years we've never used a new envelope (we did once have several boxes of new padded envelopes that were given to us by someone who had no use for them), almost never used a new box (I just remember that when we sold 85 copies of Damon Albarn's "Democrazy", we used flattened Priority Mail boxes that we got from the post office).
Happy Earth Day!
1 Comments:
It didn't take long for me to realize that many of the orders we send to non-U.S. destinations are shipped in Global Priority envelopes, and those ARE new, provided by the post office. So it isn't true to say "we've never used a new envelope" unless I qualify that by saying we've never used a new envelope for a domestic shipment.
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