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leeloo's avatar

Where can i purchase those little pillows of air they use in packing? and roughly how much do these cost?

Asked by leeloo (28points) March 9th, 2009
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patg7590's avatar

the UPS store
no idea how much they cost

Harp's avatar

I may be wrong, but my understanding is that those air pillows are made as needed by shippers using a special in-house system. The attraction for shippers is that they don’t have to store bulky rolls of packaging; they just use the machine to crank them out on the spot. But that’s why you don’t see them for sale.

Jeruba's avatar

I’ve seen bubble wrap in big rolls at office supply places like Staples and OfficeMax. I wouldn’t dare look close enough to buy them because the next thing you know, I’d be rolling them out on my sidewalk for people to stomp on.

Google “bubble wrap” and you’ll find some prices.

Staalesen's avatar

A friend of mine had a 50m roll of bubblewrap, and usid it to pick up girls….
As girls apperently loves those things…

DandyDear711's avatar

I like those airbags too so I have been keeping them. Maybe you can ask Amazon.com. I know they use them. Sorry I wasn’t more helpful.

Only other idea is to ask for them on Craig’s List or some such place…

I went to google an image of them cuz the guys above think you are talking about bubble wrap when you aren’t. I found a link for them: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.weshipit.net/AirPillow.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.weshipit.net/order.html&usg=__nhCGWVSW9QatBwl8os8y7y9zbxE=&h=299&w=400&sz=15&hl=en&start=2&sig2=WRIynNQAx2xKCrF3DtcQgw&um=1&tbnid=fNqhzaBU5MCYgM:&tbnh=93&tbnw=124&ei=r5W1Sa76DorMM6bmmfEE&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dair%2Bpillows%2Bpacking%26hl%3Den%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7GGLG_en%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1 nice short link!

asmonet's avatar

@Staalesen: We totally do. :D

Staalesen's avatar

@asmonet
I have always wondered why really….

asmonet's avatar

BECAUSE IT’S FLIPPIN’ AMAZING.

POP. POP. POPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOPOP.

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