Nothing makes me feel more at home in a new community like a good stickering run. And crimethinc ex-workers collective are my go to peeps for sticker-run-supply sourcing. After placing my order I was amused to read in their shipping faq* the following:

Styrofoam peanuts are evil, we agree.

We get this a lot -“Jesus Fuck! I got my order today and y’all used Styrofoam peanuts for packaging! OMFG! Don’t you know those destroy the environment and everything fucking else?! Explain this quick, or I’m never ordering from you again!” Yes, we know the limitless evil of Styrofoam peanuts, and we’re glad you are concerned as well, but we would never, ever buy them for packaging. But, we do have several places we dumpster them from on a regular basis that keeps us stocked with them 365 days a year, and they are the best cushioning material. By dumpstering them, of course, we are not contributing to any more being made, and also reduce the use of other material we’d need in their place. If you really want to help reduce the damage of Styrofoam peanuts, you can send them back to us for re-use – shipping will be cheap ;).

Take a hint kids – sticker responsibly.

*It’s about time we can accept faq as an improper noun and forego the capitalized version, isn’t it?

There is also this justification of how come they do credit card ecommerce at all.