The Business Of Amazon Shipping Boxes 

Howww did CNBC make a video about boxes so interesting?

10 years later.. Amazon builds its own box. 20 years later Amazon becomes a monopoly in the 📦 market

Can’t help but think about the Simpson episode when the school goes to the box factory

Dunder Mifflin should have pivoted to the box business instead of printers...

"America is the Saudi Arabia of trees" LOL

Brazil is the Saudi Arabia of trees...with its own Amazon, LOL.

Being a postal carrier, I swear half of the big boxes I deliver are filled only with air. Smh.

“China certainly doesn’t have trees” They do, but just like what he said about India, not the right type.

You know you're a huge company when you have a PhD serving as Director Of Customer Packaging Experience on the payroll.

I'm sitting here watching a documentary about cardboard boxes! My life is so great and fulfilling! Yay 2020!

I did this for entrepreneurship class all I did was sell boxes for shipping company’s and restraunt take out boxes and got an F

I always save the packaging to re-use it for eBay. Boxes and bubble mailers. I just make sure to take the barcodes and address off.

Reminds me about the Spongebob episode where squidward watches tv and sees a documentary about boxes then switches Channels and sees a box fight where boxes fight lol

I hope these packaging companies adapt and develop more to eco friendlier options for those plastic bags & bubble wraps.

Lol after covid, I want to see 2020's actual numbers compared to the projected numbers @ 15:25

I was an intern at WestRock last summer! One of my roles was entering daily Amazon orders.

I shop online a lot... I also sell things online. I always re-use the boxes!

I remember when I ordered a small 10” windshield wiper for the back of my car , it came in a box that was big enough to fit a sword or something 😂

I worked at Amazon seven years ago for eight months and always wondered where they got they're shipping boxes.

Please God, NO MORE PLASTIC "solutions"! UGH!

This is the longest ad for boxes I have ever watched.

We don’t need more plastic we need alternative eco friendly packaging.

It’s not free two day shipping. You have to pay for the prime membership which is $120.00 a year.

I think they should at least explore the incorporation of hemp and bamboo in box making.

7:42 peep the open box lol

Before I retired this year I worked in a supply warehouse where we stocked their boxes and it took up many aisles from floor to ceiling. We shipped out trailer loads every week.

Ahhh Georgia Pacific, they also make my toilet paper

talking about boxes and Instagramable moments... oh no.. just no

I work at ups and those arrows are giving me ptsd

I love the sound it make when a heavy cardboard a3 size slaps on to flexing conveyor rollers it makes a fantastic noise

Now it’s CNBC vs. Vox vs. Cheddar vs. AJ+ for RU-vid documentaries.

7:00 Dude's a packaging machine

Maybe in the future we will use some reusable boxes, ones that people return or are even picked up from homes at the next delivery and keep reusing the same ones over and over again.

I work for post office. Amazon barely tapes their boxes. Many time content get lost. That one paper tape not holding heavy things.

In the Netherlands the biggest ecommerce company now ships big items in good boxes without boxes around then. They seal it with thin transparent plastic and then stick the shipping label on it.

The best part about these boxes is that they're completely biodegradable, so no matter how many boxes Amazon ships, they'll still be non-harmful to our environment.I am currently making a video on this very issue. Great job CNBC.

I think Jeff B should be required to take back all shipping materials and reuse them.

Another important aspect of why just relying on consumers to recycle can't work is, in my area we now have a VERY short list of things we're allowed to recycle. My area doesn't have great recycling infrastructure so we shipped most of it overseas, which we can no longer do. We want to recycle more, but we can't. We get charged for incorrect things in recycling as well.

Its 4:47 am, and I’m watching a video on boxes. This reminds me of that commercial spongebob was watching where the guy goes “i didnt know what to get ya, so i got you this box”

"Electronics and dinnerware will still require boxes." Tell Amazon that. They just shipped me a 6TB hard drive in a plastic mailer. 😩👎

We don't need more plastic. Amazon needs to be more proactive in environmental issues. Need to develop better alternatives.

No one: CNBC: Who makes Amazon shipping boxes?

I get anxiety when it says my package is delivered, but I can’t find it on my porch and it is in the mailbox

I work in corrugate design and the ecological issue is not with what Amazon uses to ship but the entire model of eCommerce over brick and mortar. It's great that some less harmful packaging is in Amazon's financial interest (Don't be fooled by their greenwashing) but fundamentally their system is shockingly more damaging than the norms of commerce. I'm not saying eCommerce should be outlawed, there are numerous reasons why it is important to many consumers and I go to amazon for certain things but the vast majority of products people buy on Amazon could (and should) be purchased in store when possible. USPS, Fedex, amazon, and most products you purchase online are considered single-parcel shipment which really should be a last ditch effort as far as distribution is concerned. Single parcel forces distributors to use massive amounts of packaging to ship each item because it will be thrown and dropped at every step on its way to you. It also puts more trucks on the road, making more stops, burning tons and tons of fuel. All of this while giving you a damaged product more frequently than any store. I also resent this video for insinuating that amazon invented ship testing. There has been standardized testing used for over 50 years and as long as there has been major trade there has been some form of shipment testing. For years amazon has tried to sell themselves as the heroes, solving the problems they created.

At one point, I had a mountain of Amazon shipping boxes. Tried using some to mail for items I sold online, but still too many. I wish they could deliver the item, wait a few minutes while I open it, remove the items, and take back the box!

amazon does not care about recycling just saving $$$. that is fine but let's not pretend otherwise.

Never knew a vid about boxes could be so interesting

i bought 5 amazon shares at 400$. now they are at like 1700$. thanks bezos for making my portfolio go up. i am tired of winning.

Yes, the paper industry is growing, Dunder Mifflin in back in business.

*Dunder Mufflin has entered the chat

Hahaha RU-vid read in my mind. I was wondering that yesterday and today CNBC post this video.

1:29 I thought he was boutta say "death of rick and morty" I cant be alone

It should be a program specifically for this issue such as “Buy Back” maybe 5c per pound? Or something of that topic , Amazon will benefit since is the same box and plastic .... anyway just a thought.

How did I get to a place in my life where I’m watching a 16 min box documentary?

What's really kinda interesting is this last summer I used all my Amazon boxes in my garden around my flower beds and such.... then a few months later where I put those boxes I got HUGE mushrooms!! It was a HUGE colony of morel mushrooms. Their boxes were contaminated with mushroom spores and my flower beds were a huge mess. Now all those boxes go in the recycling bin. What a waste!! I'd like to know why morel mushroom spores were all over them.

im sorry is no one focusing on how amazon has 10 million unique products!?

Yeah that’s what was on my mind every time I saw a Amazon video. “Damn the box manufacturing industry is booming”

great more plastic waste instead of recyclable cardboard because it cost more wow! clear example of how the world is gonna end.

they tricked me into watching a video that is 15 minutes about boxes. Well done... not even mad

This is a video I never knew I wanted to see but now that I see it I want it.

3:45 I'm glad they took the pic the way they are left at customers doorstep (Upside down)

ups/fedex doesn't take care of your boxes when they deliver to your place.. 1 time i have package inside my box inside is broken.. all things fall out..

I'm glad the video mentioned the negative aspects of post-consumer flexible packaging. No matter how much lipstick you still have a pig. Most plastic packaging can be recycled but it isn't, that's the reality. As the video noted, over 90% of corrugated boxes are recycled. By the way, most new boxes already contain at least one third recycled paper. It's the only packaging material that keeps on giving.

At 1:52 he did not stop lol

Lol I just ordered something 😂💀

The problem with the air pillows is that Amazon uses them to fill empty space in the box - not actually cushion the contents from vibration or impact. The same thing with their craft-paper filler. With either option, Amazon places your items in the bottom of the box, then just fills the empty space. They do nothing to protect your purchases.

I’m a Ups Driver and from experience these boxes are not the best, they get damage so easy and the tape Amazon uses is the worst! They only put one strip of tape for any box or weight and half of the time I’m re taping it

I was told that the boxes are purchased at Office Depot. :P

The Saudi princes and Kings of the world think they're so grand and powerful sitting on wealth passed on to them while ONE man singlehandedly built the world's richest company from scratch. Now that, is impressive

if amazon stops using ridiculously large size boxes for their small items.... then maybe MAYBE their shipping costs wouldnt be so high. just saying amazon

Fascinating topic, great vid.

I didn’t know that there exists a designation called “Director of customer packaging experience” in a company

The most amazing thing about this is #CNBC managed to make a 16 minute video about boxes without directly answering the question in the title. I still don't know who makes Amazon's boxes.

1945: I wonder what is space 2019: I wonder who makes Amazon boxes

Great Video for my FYI. I am a project manager at Detroit Stoker Company and we supply Parts and Service to the Boiler Stokers in all those plants which produce the steam to make those boxes. Man how the world goes round!

Well done CNBC! Tertiary pckaging is so important during all supply chain process. Thanks!

I clicked on this because I thought they would explain how Amazon always has the perfectly sized box for everything..

Honestly just make sure its enviromentally friendly and recyclable. Tho i do not want to continue cutting down our Canadian forests and replacing them with everygreen trees.

I haul a lot of the giant paper rolls out of some of the Georgia Pacific paper mills, as well as some others on the west coast, and deliver it to several GP and Westrock and PCA box plants down throughout California, as well as hauling recycled cardboard bales to the mills, and delivering to Amazon Fulfillment centers, and I am a Prime member, so this video has a lot of familiar sights in it! Lol Most of the boxes that I see being produced in California, and this is not surprising, are for food related products, produce, etc, but at least one of plants I regularly go to (westrock in the bay area) has a dedicated Amazon box line.

These skids of cardboard took up a ton of space in our warehouse and every order we got the person placing the orders was always in panic mode for delivery 😮

I frequently order from Amazon and I too asked myself this same question. the contents ALWAYS fit the box 100% perfectly + had plastic padding in it.

Next, Amazon will ship predictive shipping speeds before you even ordered it.

These kinds of videos make me feel smart for some reason

0:48 ALL the years of playing Tetris is paying off!

The story of how two brothers - and five other men - parlayed a small business loan into a thriving paper goods concern is a long and interesting one. And here it is...

4:57 industry consolidation? You mean monopolies!

I worked at union camp in the late 90s. They had one multi million dollar special order German made Machine that ran almost constantly making boxes for 'milko'. They were basically boxes to transport containers of milk or orange juice. Another machine that was as old as wwii was primarily used to make boxes for white consolidated industries. Which owns several major manufacturers of refrigerators. It was constantly running to meet the demand of the super large heavy duty boxes. During the late 90s the demand was high and most corrugated board companies were closing their doors. A person with experience operating flexo presses that cut, print, and fold the boxes typically made more than $20 an hour. This was a time when a standard steel press operator or plastic mold operator might expect to make only around $10 an hour. I know a guy that has been with a corrugated packaging company since then and he is at top pay, almost $40 an hour. That's pretty good for someone who didn't even graduate high school and speaks to the demand of the industry for people operating the machines to make boxes. Swedish companies are recycling tires and plastic bags combined to make materials for building roads. Reinventing the wheel may not prove beneficial but redesigning the box could.

And then there is Walmart that sends you a huge box to put a smaller box in to package something that just needed a plastic envelope. lol.

“China certainly doesn’t have trees” ~ oh really now?

My investing research: watch cnbc videos

Until there's a Star Trek Teleporter? We're doomed aren't we..

I spent all kind of money on my cat for various beds which she would use for a few days or so and get tired of. Then one day I caught her sleeping on an Amazon pouch mailer (the kind lined on the inside with bubble wrap) that I had left out after I opened it. It is my cat's favorite bed! I replace it every few months if I get another Amazon delivery in the same pouch.

I ordered a 1ft cable from amazon and it came in an A3 size inflated plastic packaging and then inside that was the other company’s packaging

Lets replace cardboard which is biodegradable with plastic which never degrades! WOO HOO!

never thought I'd watch a video about boxes.

Damn.. I’ve always wondered!

No one: Literally no one: CNBC: box business is up

Isn't there anything on that isn't about boxes?!

4:12 You forgot Dunder Mifflin

This gives me flashbacks to that one episode when Squidward watches how boxes are made on tv... and it’s on every channel...