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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I guess IBM is guilty of not following the first tenet of conservation, while I'm guilty of not following the other two. Sigh. Cheerio! P:\Ted phillipst@bah.com ---------- From: jloyless To: phillipst Cc: tp750 Subject: Re: Trackpoint caps Date: Wednesday, July 05, 1995 11:38AM On Wed, 05 Jul 95 10:44:00 PDT you wrote: >BTW - The 8 caps came packed in small plastic ziplock bags, which were >inside of two small cardboard boxes, which were shipped in a medium sized >cardboard shipping container stuffed with styrofoam peanuts. The amount of >trash I threw away from the shipping almost filled a small trashcan. Talk >about overkill! Whew, no wonder IBM is going broke. No! No! No! Didn't you notice?? Those weren't just meaningless little cardboard boxes!! They're diskette boxes!! (When I was gasping in amazement over the amount of packaging the caps came in, one of my teammates noticed the similarity in size to a floppy and tried it out - you can store up to 20 floppies in each box.) Jane