AT&T Asks Customers to Give Up Paper Bills
Green... but not enough
So I had AT&T U-Verse up until Monday. They asked me to return my equipment to any UPS Store. So I did... and they told me to throw away the remote and power cords. Its cheaper to make new ones than it is to pay to ship them back.
Seems like there's some more work these companies can get done on the green front than just paperless billing.
Seems like there's some more work these companies can get done on the green front than just paperless billing.
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They also have a lot of work to do with shipping merchandise and equipment. They ship their SIM cards in separate boxes. So a box that could hold probably 2000 sim cards instead ships 10-40 depending on that weeks order. Why not just ship them in the same box as the phones?? Or, how about when a new season comes around don't have the store throw away boxes of brochures just so we can have the new fall brochures with some silly family playing in leaves on the cover. What a waste.
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If it really does cost more to ship remotes and power cords back to the warehouse than it does to make new ones, then you probably aren't going to reduce waste by loading up trucks with as much used crap as possible.
Anything that costs more usually costs more because it requires more energy, and with shipping that means burning more fuel.
The idea that we should do everything possible to re-use everything we can is just baseless dogma.
Anything that costs more usually costs more because it requires more energy, and with shipping that means burning more fuel.
The idea that we should do everything possible to re-use everything we can is just baseless dogma.
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