More climate change bollocks

Help to reduce the carbon footprint of your parcel by up to 90%* By diverting your parcel to a ParcelShop or locker

began an email to me from a courier. Below they “justified” their claim with,

* The carbon footprint for delivery to a ParcelShop or locker is approximately 15-30g CO₂ per parcel versus 150-300g CO₂ per parcel for a home delivery. Based on 600 parcels over a 70km route per day. Source: BAIN Report

Well, yes, the carbon footprint for you is less, but what about my carbon footprint? Instead of the courier company taking a carefully planned route that delivers 600 parcels in 70km, each parcel recipient will be making their own journey to the parcel shop and back. In a rural area this could easily be an average of 1km (it’s eight to my nearest town, that’s a sixteen km round trip), making 600km of journeys.

What they mean is, why don’t you burn the expensive fuel instead of us?