Re:Whitewood Under Siege: Wooden Shipping Pallets
by jessaustin on Monday May 26, 2014 @05:20PM
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Maybe this is a rare streak of jingoism for me, but it seems odd that a foreign company has been able to come in and dictate through the courts that the whole industry should work on a completely different model. Perhaps the reason "blue" is such a good deal for shippers is because much of the real cost has been transferred to third parties. ISTM the courts should force CHEP to include a significant deposit in its contracts, or else forgo the discounted forced labor of the recyclers. It wouldn't have to be a 100% deposit, but it would have to be high enough so that shipping destinations were no longer indifferent to whether the pallet was returned to CHEP or recycled or stolen.
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Re:Whitewood Under Siege: Wooden Shipping Pallets
by Lagged2Death on Monday May 26, 2014 @05:40PM
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...it seems odd that a foreign company has been able to come in and dictate through the courts that the whole industry should work on a completely different model.
Remove the word "foreign" and that statement still makes sense and it still describes an objectionable state of affairs. No jingoism required.
Re:Whitewood Under Siege: Wooden Shipping Pallets
by gig3m on Monday May 26, 2014 @08:34PM
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While CHEP definitely has changed the way some retail supply chains work, overall the pallet industry largely works the same as it did before CHEP was on the map. We build upwards of 2mil new manufacture wooden pallets per year and I never run into CHEP as an alternative for the sectors I service.
Source: I run one of the largest pallet manufacturers in the US, 50+ year old family business.