not to be too argumentative- but pretty much everything about a trip to disney world is not sustainable. lol
I think all the paper and boxes and all getting mailed around is something of a waste- but people like that. It's a treat to get something in the mail from disney. And in tehory they only need to do all that the first time to get you hooked into MB's and MDE.
But i'm not sure the bands are pure evil in the long term. I suspect the reason they waste their money shipping them is that a 3rd party place is engraving them and so they get processed in Kentucky and then need to get shipped to Disney anyway. Disney worked it out with UPS so the costs aren't that much more to ship them to us instead. Granted it would be more efficient and less wasteful to bulk ship them to the resorts- but see above- people love a package, envelope, whatever from WDW. I think they sort of need to engrave to add the names so that if you are in a room with 4 people with pink or red or whatever you need to be able to tell them apart (people aren't going to remember the serial numbers). Never mind sorting on vacation but if you can easily tell them apart it's easier to have you reuse them. You are less apt to toss them and ask for another. You can tell them apart when you find them in the back of the junk drawer at home etc.
So I'll let them slide for the test and initial roll out but thats just my humble opinion of course.
And if this time next year they are still overnighting duplicate bands out the ying yang then it will drive me nutz.
