Sunday 6 November 2022

More climate change bollocks

Help to reduce the carbon footprint of your parcel by up to 90%* By diverting your parcel to a ParcelShop or locker...

began an email to me from a courier. Below they "justified" their claim with,

* The carbon footprint for delivery to a ParcelShop or locker is approximately 15-30g CO₂ per parcel versus 150-300g CO₂ per parcel for a home delivery. Based on 600 parcels over a 70km route per day. Source: BAIN Report

Well, yes, the carbon footprint for you is less, but what about my carbon footprint? Instead of the courier company taking a carefully planned route that delivers 600 parcels in 70km, each parcel recipient will be making their own journey to the parcel shop and back. In a rural area this could easily be an average of 1km (it's eight to my nearest town, that's a sixteen km round trip), making 600km of journeys.

What they mean is, why don't you burn the expensive fuel instead of us?

8 comments:

Mark Wadsworth said...

Tee hee, you see bullshit like this all the time.

Like stuff arriving well packaged in loads of plastic, polystyrene and cardboard. But there's no paper invoice, which they send by email "to reduce paper waste".

Scrobs. said...

I can't see why they can't just fax you the item, after all, everyone has 3D printers these days, so it'd be dead easy to print off a new fridge, or a motorbike!

Lola said...

I had an argument once with a lefty greenie idiot saying that all the Amazon vans buzzing about would add a stacks of CO2 to 'climate change'. I pointed out that the exact opposite was the case and it was more probable that it would 'save the planet' as it would mean far less individual trips to hardware store to buy a packet of screws, or to the bookshop to buy a book, or to the chemist to buy a bottle of shampoo or whatever. And in my area now Amazon have a small fleet of Electric Merc Sprinters. Damn', they are QUICK.

Mark Wadsworth said...

Sc, I don't have one and never will. Not interested.

L, and... did the LG stamp his/her foot and walk away?

Lola said...

Nah. Just in denial. 'What do you know about it?' It asked. "Well, it's obvious and anyway in a previous life I was a highway/traffic design engineer, so bang bang you're dead" - or the approximate equivalent.

Bayard said...

"Electric Merc Sprinters. Damn', they are QUICK."

Aren't all electric vehicles? After all, you get full torque from standstill with an electric motor. Nothing else gives you that apart from steam.

Lola said...

B. Yes. But it's a van!

Bayard said...

L, some early research on electric vehicles was done using a converted Transit. One of my lecturers at college worked in the team. He said that their electric van could burn off a Porsche at the lights, so long as they didn't get wheelspin.