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Is this some regional thing? Everything I've ever ordered from Amazon has come in a card box or thick paper bag and even has paper tape.
It seems to be fairly random, but I've certainly seen them use plastic bags for shipping. These are the two most common styles, with one being a bag, and the other being a bubble-wrap envelope.
Random.
I can get 8 items at one time... Two will be in a box, four will be in paper bags, and two will be in plastic bags.
For such an automated company, you'd think that everything would just be in a single box.
Your order(s) don't necessarily ship all of the items from the same warehouse.
But each item from a different warehouse?
I used to get everything in single boxes before. Now it's always multiple packages.
This is speculation, but it's probably a lot faster and cheaper to just pack and ship instead of collecting first, and then packing and shipping.
I can't see it being cheaper, since those packages aren't free. Faster? Not sure about that, either. Amazon automates a lot of their process, and the separate items would still need to gather in one place to be shipped together anyway. Packing a half dozen separate items is surely less efficient than packing everything in one box.
Again, this wasn't a problem a few years ago, when everything would come in a single box. The greenwashing by Amazon about their plastic bags is 10 steps backwards, IMO.
You might have updated your settings to tell them yo only ship you paper st some point. This should be the default, really.