Recycled / Reusable Packaging

After packing up and shipping out the Happily Handmade gift boxes it occurred to me I should post a little something about our shipping process.  The contents of each gift box are packed inside USPS shipping boxes, which are reusable and recyclable and have been awarded the Cradle to Cradle^SM certification. We then reuse the packing materials used to keep the handmade goodness inside each gift box safe and sound during shipping:  we save the packing materials our Sponsors use to ship their goods to us, to use when we ship the gift boxes to you. And you can reuse those same materials to ship your packages in the future.  Then we ship via the USPS Priority Mail service, which delivers your gift box to with your regular daily mail delivery which saves energy.

I suppose we could use shiny new packing materials that would jump out of their boxes with their sparkly attractiveness, but we opt for a more environmentally friendly method.  And no, the materials aren’t as green as they could be. Currently, it isn’t within the Happily Handmade budget to purchase completely eco-friendly packaging products.  But we do what we can to use as little as possible, waste nothing and reuse everything we can.