To help reduce packaging waste and improve efficiency of ecommerce shipping for its vendors, Amazon will require that by Aug. 1, 2019, select products being sold and fulfilled by Amazon arrive in its fulfillment centers in certified packaging under its Frustration-Free Packaging (FFP) program. This means that the packaging does not require any shipping preparation or an overbox to be applied by Amazon.

The program offers an incentive to vendors, a generous one-time early adopter credit “to assist in the transitions costs;” after the Aug 1, 2019, certification deadline date, there is an ongoing chargeback for every package not certified. Read more about this development here.

Packaging Digest would like to know what you think of all this.

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* 1. Does Amazon sell and fulfill any of your products?

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* 2. Are you surprised by this news?

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* 3. Have you previously voluntarily participated in Amazon’s Frustration-Free Packaging program?

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* 4. What do you think of Amazon’s new ecommerce packaging requirement?

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* 5. Do you currently create packaging specifically for the ecommerce channel?

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* 6. Moving forward, will you…

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* 7. Through FFP, product manufacturers can design shippers with their own branded graphics. How much of an incentive is it to retain your branding?

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* 8. Does the gain in branding help offset the effort to create FFP?

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* 9. How much added EFFORT do you think it will be to get certified?

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* 10. How much added COST do you think it will be to get certified?

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* 11. Any other comments?

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