If you buy ULINE boxes, your money goes to Extreme Right Wing Politicians and Groups. Comic & Webcomic publishers that champion queer and diverse stories should be careful about this. Don't ship your comics in ULINE boxes. The money will go to the same people tryna ban your books. refuseuline.com - ThreadSky

hikatamika.com • 180 days ago

If you buy ULINE boxes, your money goes to Extreme Right Wing Politicians and Groups.

Comic & Webcomic publishers that champion queer and diverse stories should be careful about this. Don't ship your comics in ULINE boxes. The money will go to the same people tryna ban your books.

https://refuseuline.com/

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chardove.bsky.social•180 days ago

I bought from Uline once when we were just getting started shipping items. Nowadays we recycle boxes and use other vendors.

socialismforall.bsky.social•180 days ago

URINE

hikatamika.com•180 days ago

Quite literally 💀

wolfsb4ne.bsky.social•180 days ago

i have a question regarding researching business:

How do users figure out where their money goes when they buy something, using the ULINE company as an example, if it's going to a good cause? 📬

hikatamika.com•180 days ago

It usually requires sniffing out of connections. Similar to Chick-Fil-A and its anti-LGBTQ spending. Also putting the owners of a company into https://www.opensecrets.org/, a donation tracker. (The Refuse Uline people did that.)

hikatamika.com•180 days ago

Political news outlets talk about it, too. (Politica, ProPublica, NYT, and others covered ULine's political spending).

ULine has a product catalog, some mailbox holders at my dayjob get it, where the president has a column she uses as a mouthpiece for her politics—

hikatamika.com•180 days ago

—all that to say, it typically takes someone being really nosy about plugging the names of higher-ups into google searches.

Minus the ULine company president yapping about her politics in the ULine product catalogs.

metroxixarts.bsky.social•180 days ago

Some companies are open about it,.. Like hobby lobby & Chick-fil-A.

Though how I do it sometimes; is go in YouTube and see what the people, who look into them, have to say. especially if I'm trying to Guage a business that I feel is shady, for a particular reason.

oatmealfoxy.bsky.social•179 days ago

To add on to this, always look at multiple videos to see if they all have the same opinions and to be sure info is legit because some could be bias and lie just because they hate someone/something. Like Peta is now a days for example.

wolfsb4ne.bsky.social•179 days ago

Ah! I see. it's terrible to see how far they fell from grace.

samedragontime.bsky.social•180 days ago

for a sec I thought it said urine. I was gonna be like yeah I guess don't buy urine cause that's a bit gross, but this makes more sense.

stefene.bsky.social•179 days ago

i use https://packagingprice.com and they are cheaper!

donuki.bsky.social•180 days ago

Yup, I used them briefly a few years ago before I found out about their “contributions”. I will not buy from them ever again.

unsuspectingone.bsky.social•179 days ago

Aw damn, thanks for sharing. Had no idea about this.

rebelpilot.bsky.social•179 days ago

Company I work for buys tons of storage containers and shipping products from them. -.-

rampaigehalsey.bsky.social•180 days ago

I’ve heard (but haven’t personally tried) that good alternatives are:
https://Grainger.com
https://EcoEnclose.com
https://PackagingSupplies.com

Maybe the @cartoonistcoop.bsky.social has a list or could (pretty please) add one to their resources list?

deramin.bsky.social•180 days ago

I've gotten plastic packaging and padded mailers from EcoEnclose and liked them.

jimcliffe.bsky.social•179 days ago

Somehow I got on their mailing list. The catalogue goes straight into the recycling bin.

rockyfuller.bsky.social•59 days ago

My mum got the new catalog the other day. We never had use for it, so I always recycled it, but maybe I'll burn it next time knowing how these asshole founders think

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