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thesmokinpossum · 9 months ago

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You know, I used to be one of those person who believed that we should not shame people for their individual habits when it comes to climate changes but focus on the industries and I still believe that it's a more pressing issues in many ways but like…

Ever since I started working at the post office, I just cannot feel the same. I'm genuinely disgusted by the amount of people who will return 10, 15, shit even 20+ parcels on a weekly basis. There's people I see doing this every saturday like clockwork.It's pretty clear that they had no need for any of the bullshit they ordered, they just wanted the little rush of getting some parcel in the mail.

It's also almost always from the same 3 website (Amazon, Shein and Temu) so they're not only actively destroying the environment (and seriously, I think it's hard to realize how much plastic and fuel all those returns take if you haven't seen it first hand -just the amount of tape we use on them on a daily basis is enough to make me sick-), they also contribute to horrible working conditions for so many people so yeah, at this point I do think we need to start applying some shame to all that bs tbh

#i really overfocus on the tape thing because it's just *so much* plastic in one day in one post office and for what?#for some cheap bullshit also made of plastic that are gonne ends up as nothing but landfill fodder #consumerism makes me physically ill at this point #it gives me the same vibe than looking at rotten meat and i'm not even exagerating #and i say that as somebody who enjoys having little trinkets and knick knacks in her house #people are just pushing it so so so far it's absolutely insane to me #disclaimer before someone decide to be sensitive: I'm not talking about people who order something realize it's not working for them..#..and then return it to get their money back #that's normal behavior and the impact on the environment is very small if you do it a few times in a year #i'm also not judging you if you're broke and order things on really cheap website #tho i do encourage you to check other option (for your own well-being too because some of those will be filled with lead and shit)#but once again..some people are pushing it so far it's driving me insane

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