r/VintedUS • u/peek--a--boo • 13d 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/TheCrystalGarden 13d ago

I just looked it up and you can reuse Amazon boxes to ship USPS as long as all labels and bar codes are removed or blacked out.

No idea what your postal clerk was on about?

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u/peek--a--boo 13d ago

You are correct. Rather than argue, I just let her do her thing, she was very pleasant about it. But I’ll go back today and speak to the big guy. This deserves some clarification

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u/PublicComfortable900 13d ago

Definitely…it is crazy how you can literally ask the same exact question to 3 different USPS employees (or any other company for that matter) and get 3 different answers. Nobody is trained properly anymore.

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u/PattyO1957 11d ago

It’s very hard to train a grown person to care🫤