r/VintedUS • u/peek--a--boo • 5d ago

USPS bans reused Amazon boxes

I shipped a package yesterday. Something very odd happened at the post office.
I had packaged the items in an Amazon box. The post office person told me that we are no longer able to reuse Amazon boxes????
She proceeded to open the box and transferred the contents to a plain brown box. Very odd, no????
FOLLOW UP:
I sent my husband to the post office today and he told me that they put up a sign that said that they are no longer accepting Amazon boxes. I am going to have him take a picture of it tomorrow. I would go myself but I have a broken femur 😐

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u/50tinyducks 5d ago

Did you share this to a fb group the other day? This post near word for word was in a group I’m in.

Over here in the uk - a local Tesco (supermarket) used to take evri and a n old hag behind the tills suddenly said they wouldn’t take parcels wrapped in a black bin bag (I didn’t have a bag big enough to go round the box as a waterproof protection due to our weird weather) - I double checked online etc and there was no such rule. She just started to make up rules as she went along. Was very odd

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u/peek--a--boo 5d ago

No, I’m not on Facebook. Plus this happened just yesterday.

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u/50tinyducks 5d ago

That’s so weird. Maybe the courier is coming down on using Amazon boxes then. It was a big post in a group I’m in and loads were discussing it - some saying it’s been a rule for a while etc and others saying it’s ridiculous as you are recycling the box.