Not THAT kind, but about the literal packaging of books sent to this office. And others: a publishing friend said she received an indignant phone call asking her company to PLEASE stop using mailers that contain that gray fluffy stuff as padding; and I also saw it on Twitter. I asked in this office if the fluffy stuff was a problem, with Shoshana replying that it wasn’t if you opened the packages properly, and while I’d really like you all to think that yes, we are that intimidating, Shosh is a kind soul. But is it a big problem? Can’t you just brush the stuff off? What are you people wearing to work?
I don’t open packages so I don’t get a vote, but I do lament the apparent passing of truly pop-worthy bubble wrap. Now it deflates with a silent sigh, like so much these days does.
About Roger Sutton
My pet peeve is the big box filled with bubble wrap and one slim picture book. I often get multiples of these on the same day from the same publisher.
My issue with the gray fluff is I can’t stop worrying I’m breathing it and getting Fluff Lung.
That fluff stuff is often kapok. Kapok is a perfectly natural substance to which I am extremely allergic. Such packages need to be opened outside, no matter what the weather, by someone in my household who isn’t me. Sometimes the book itself is covered in the vile stuff, and then it has to be cleaned before I can touch it. Feh.
I like bubble wrap though.
Is the allure that it’s biodegradable?
THIS is what you choose to write about? Really?
Jeez, Nancy, chill. You sound like me looking at the “No” cart.
Roger, I have never not ever been chill.
And, Nancy, I would have you be no other way.