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Unless the "arbitrary" decision to expedite transit incremented the landed cost exorbitantly, I'd have it as a "good thing" - and exactly how can you judge whether this practice is sustainable for the particular vendor?

Btw I was referring to economic sustainability but as you've stated below I'm also interested in environmental sustainability. Yes, They need power to maintain the servers and to maintain the robots which operate their package delivery line. That I can understand, if anything inorder to be the most sustainable we should have bigger orders delivered once or twice every few months, not once every week.

The grinch came out in me this christmas I can tell you that much. Deliberatley.

If it's the environment / economic impact of the entire production / life cycle, do calculate the precise value of those for all purchases, including those for basic sustenance -or for that matter the cost of generating the electricity required to power the devices through which this particular social media operates?

I wasn't talking about a social media website 🙂, I was talking about a paticular component supplier (not a manufacturer, my bad).

It still stands to reason in my mind that if I had an option to consolidate all of my items into one delivery and sent me the Dip holsters AND the solder in one package instead of two after the new year had come then it would've been better for the environment then sending me one package now and one package after.

It would save them costs on postage, wouldn't it? And man hours because then all of the components can be done for one order instead of spreading out that labour across multiple orders its consolidated into just one. That saves time for the poor guy running around and picking items out of trays on shelves too. He may have to go back and get another order bag for each individual order.

So without consolidating the items into one order, he would have to go and get a bag for just a couple of chips or resistors or whatever (ship that out), then start again on another order, another couple of components (ship that out), then start again on another order (ship that out).. etc.

I don't know what their storage area is like but if its ineficient then its going to cost them more for smaller packages than for larger consolidated ones.

As it is the solder that I ordered has no flux core in it so I cannot use it, silly me ordered the wrong type. But thats really not my fault because they only had a few selections available for sale anyway. I might be able to give that non-fluxed solder away at some point or get a cleaner flux besides russian tree resin so I can use it. Mustn't be wasteful and all that.