I applaud the re-use. (while maintaining my pov that styro is inherently unnecessary and wasteful).
Just fwiw when it is no longer reusable the few places I know to recycle require all the tape off before hand.
As a Texan, styro is an absolute must. I’m sure not all are created equal because I’ve never had any flaky issues nor issues from bottles breaking through the bottom. Wild to me that some are doubting the thermal protection.
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Ship when cool, ship cold chain. Move somewhere else.
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This thread should come with a poll. I’m anti-styro (but always reuse any that I’m shipped).
My approach to this is to hold the bottle just above the lower half of styrofoam shipper and blow on it just hard enough to dislodge the bits that are clinging to the bottle but not hard enough to scatter them all over. My breath seems to magically eliminate the static cling, I’m guessing because of the humidity. Most of the time all the bits end up in the shipper, after which I can usually replace the top without any additional cleanup.
No.
I throw them in the huge garbage can and then bash/slice them to pieces with a long-handled shovel. Definitely works out the Styro Rage! Makes a hella racket too - squeaking and banging.
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I assumed thermal was better but on some other thread someone posted up evidence it wasnt any better than the cardboard ones.
i still use styro shipper when flying though
Yeah, WineBid uses the styrofoam. Invariably the case arrives with any number of bottles looking just like that Barolo pictured.
I’ve resorted to using packing tape to remove those styrofoam beads. Works pretty well and if I am reasonably careful I don’t ruin a label. 
Hand vacuum.
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Thread drift:
If anyone needs more reason to abhor polystyrene, one of it’s earliest uses was as the plasma compressor in thermonuclear warheads (hydrogen bombs); the fission device was encased in polystyrene and the blast wave from the fission reaction turned the polystyrene into plasma which compressed the lithium deuteride into the fusion reaction.
So, from the standpoint of hydrogen bombs, styrofoam is the best packer.
What really gets me is the damn squeaking sound.
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Got a box in box shipment and the boxes were separated by styrofoam peanuts. Things were everywhere and had to vacuum with the canister vac.
Whenever, years ago, I’d join my friends up at Colter Bay, Grand Teton Ntnl Park, I generally would plan on stopping in Dornan’s (in Moose) when leaving the Park to head back home. Given this typically would be in June or September, and Wyoming weather possibilities range from 90 degrees to a blizzard, I would take a case box with the styrofoam packaging, to transport bottles up there to drink and also new acquisitions back home from Dornan’s. The noise was terrible. 
It’s the first thing you hear when a nuke explodes. When you hear squeaking, start running.
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But, first, kiss your ass goodbye.
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When did the public schools in the U.S. stop having nuclear bomb drills? You know, when all the kids would practice getting down under the school desks or be marched out into the school hall and made to lay down along the wall. I was born in '58 and I remember doing them at least through 4th grade . . . which would have been around '67-'68, perhaps 5th grade.
Terry, I am '59 and I remember the duck and cover drills in elementary school so yes.
Here’s a picture of my mother, taken by my father, pushing wee bairn me in a perambulator at an anti-nuclear protest outside Wright-Paterson airbase in the fall of 1959.
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A friend’s older brother had that poster. Another 59er here.
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I’m almost 70. Under the desk for nuclear attacks. In the hallways for tornados. Never understood the first one. Even in my youth
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