Amazon Frustration Free Packaging
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What’s an odd name to use for this program? Frustration free is a great term actually, when you look at what this program really is to do that, let’s start from the beginning. You have just signed up as a vendor with Amazon and you think your products are packaged suitably for the initial transport to your warehouse, the unknown length of time of storage in your own warehouse, the transport to an Amazon fulfillment center, the unknown storage time in that fulfillment center, the transport to the consumer and the consumer’s experience, removing your packaging from your product.
show moreHmm, a simple plastic bag over your handbag product doesn’t seem to be quite sufficient now does it. This is why Amazon came up with a frustration free packaging program for products they purchased and shipped to the end consumer. Amazon frustration, free packaging or FFP is a set of rules that Amazon sellers must follow regarding their packaging.
The frustration free packaging program was introduced in 2008 to combat pollution, improve the customer’s unpacking experience. And reduce. Overpacking not to mention protect the product inside from the rigors of storage and warehouses and fulfillment centers, as well as the transport from the original warehouse through Amazon’s fulfillment center.
And finally to the consumer’s hands, the frustration free packaging program is Amazon’s response to consumer’s demand and seeks to achieve these four primary goals. Ensuring packages are easy to open to create a quality customer experience. Reduction of waste by shipping items without Amazon boxes, manufacturing packaging, a hundred percent recycling material to cut down on environmental impact and making sure that the packaging is protected adequately against damage.
In short, Amazon aims to drive the logistics industry towards cost effective, protective, low waste, and easy to open packing. You will therefore need to test and certify all primary ASINs. So you can group them as either tier one for frustration, free packaging or tier two ships known container. The products that belong to tier one and tier two do not need additional preparation from Amazon and off free from chargebacks. However, other products of RTUs tier three and are subject to the chargeback.