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Originally Posted by issybird
I can't resist attaching a screenshot of the peregrinations of the broken Echo I traded for a new Dot. Three things to note:
- This is a lot of handoffs for a broken device that got a $5 credit. I know it's all automated, but still it uses up a lot of resources, especially in the aggregate. Wouldn't it have been better just to take it on faith?
- There was a natural disaster in New Jersey last week! Who knew?
- It's showing as out for delivery and in at yet another facility some five hours later than I took the picture. Rather a waste of time travel.
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Well I hope the device took plenty of photos for its family album during its extended travels!
I think that is more ports of call than I’ve made in the past 5 years or so. A well travelled Echo for sure.
I realize the Echo was one of probably dozens or hundreds of other items on those trips, but even having a small fraction of the fuel costs I wonder how much that added up to, and what impact it had on the environment. One poster suggested blacklisting these old broken devices and throwing them away. However, I bet, though I know someone who will disagree with me, that Amazon can send it to a salvage company to pull out the usable electronics for use in refurbishing or even building new devices. That does happen. Apple even takes out the useless components that might be detrimental to the environment to more properly, safely dispose of them, so maybe Amazon does something similar. So maybe that would somehow outweigh the shipping impacts...