Amazon, Goodwill team up to use empty shipping boxes.....

[Little Star]

Amazon and Goodwill are teaming up to use empty shipping boxes and get rid of the clutter filling homes with the Give Back Box program.

After removing items from the Amazon box, a user fills it with clothes, accessories and other items you want to donate and then visits GiveBackBox.com to print a free shipping label. The box can be dropped off at the post office or UPS or picked up.

Donations go to the closest Goodwill participating in the Give Back Box program.

http://www.wokv.com/news/lifestyles/holiday/amazon-goodwill-team-use-empty-shipping-boxes/ntPj6/

Great Idea!

[tanyev]

1. Just saw this on Facebook.

It is a great idea, but I have a Goodwill store a couple blocks from my house. I should probably just put some stuff in an Amazon box and deliver it in person.

[Henry Krinkle]

2. LOL! "Goodwill"... name one thing good about them.

A 2013 article on Watchdog.org reported that Goodwill's tax returns showed that more than 100 Goodwills pay less than minimum wage, while simultaneously paying more than $53.7 million in total compensation to top executives.[37] Douglas Barr, former CEO of the Goodwill of Southern California, was the highest paid Goodwill executive in the country.[38] He received total compensation worth $1,188,733, including a base salary of $350,200, bonuses worth $87,550, retirement benefits of $71,050, and $637,864 in other reportable compensation.[39] "In 2011, the Columbia Willamette Goodwill, one of the largest in the country, says it paid $922,444 in commensurate wages to approximately 250 people with developmental disabilities. These employees worked 159,584 hours for an average hourly wage of $5.78. The lowest paid worker received just $1.40 per hour."[37]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwill_Industries#Wages

[Lithos]

4. Yes, most people do not realize just "how for profit" this "not for profit" company is

Lots of labor and management issues which divert from the "good" mission.

There are lots of good, local, programs (church and non-church) which exist and which truly do not operate like Goodwill does.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

8. I do shop there, becuse I can't afford or refuse to buy new stuff,

especially when old stuff is often of superior quality. But every time I hear their self-aggrandizing announcements over the store audio system (and that's often, as they run on a loop), I can't help think of the greedy bastards making massive amounts of money while stiffing their workers.

Of course, so many companies do that, but most don't hide behind a saintly image and a non-profit status.

I've always liked to shop at thrift shops, and so so now whenever I can, but there aren't that many around here anymore except Goodwill. So, I shop there, but not happily.

[DeminPennswoods]

3. This wasn't well thought out

Goodwill is going to get a lot of unuseable/unsaleable things. Then they'll have to figure out how to get rid of those. In my area, I have seen two Goodwill collection bins taken away because people were leaving so much junk outside of them, especially TVs, both CRT and LCD. I can imagine the unuseable, obsolete electronics they'll end up getting. I know the program says clothing, accessories and small household wares, but plenty of people either won't read that or ignore it.

[Henry Krinkle]

7. Goodwill is like one gigantic chain of landfills and yardsales of shit...

That they profit off.

Last time I ventured into one, was 2 years ago.
It was two floors of crap, junk, outdated electronics, glassware, kitchen ware, CD's, etc.

They were doing a fairly brisk sales, but judging from the clientele, it was mostly a younger, substantively employed
crowd looking for something cool for their condos, vintage clothing, 'holy shit, wait until my friends on Instagram look
at what i scored' type of folks.

Very few (if any), people in need were present.

[Liberal_in_LA]

9. That stuff is taken to the big goodwill warehouses and sold by the pound.

All of it. Stained clothing, broken crap. There is a big warehouse in LA. Amazing place. Massive amount if stuff. Scales on the ground by each cashier. They weigh your basket.

[niyad]

5. after everything I have learned about goodwill, never give anything to them. we have ARC

and some wonderful local charities here. have not set foot in a goodwill in several years now.

[JudyM]

6. Any box can be used, doesn't require a purchase from Amazon. The website generates shipping

labels regardless.

This would be good for folks who might have trouble dropping off boxloads of donations at their local domestic violence or homeless shelter.

Thanks for posting!