Johanna ordered some stamps online, because she didn’t feel like waiting at the post office. Good so far. When her dozen-or-so panes of stamps arrived, each pane was backed with a piece of cardboard about 6 times bigger than the pane, and then individually wrapped in plastic. We can see how this would be good practice when mailing stamps to collectors, but we feel it is outrageously wasteful otherwise. There should be a “minimal packaging” box we can check. This knowledge makes me very unlikely to ever order stamps online.
(I’ve invited Johanna and Shital to blog here too, what with Ehren scoring an “opportunity for improvement” on his blogging since May.)