Give Back Amazon Boxes for Goodwill Have Free Shipping

To make it easy for those of us who receive to give a little back over the holidays, a host of online retailers are encouraging customers to use their delivery boxes to help Goodwill.

The Givebackbox program is so effortless it reminds us of a famous holiday tune we’ll paraphrase here to describe it:

Step 1: Open your box. (Any box from participating retailrs — including Amazon, REI and Overstock — will do.)

Step 2: Put some stuff in your box. (Clothing, accessories and household goods are preferred.)

Step 3: Send off your box. (UPS or USPS will provide free shipping to the nearest Goodwill, with an online pickup option available.)

And that’s the way you do it.

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Evan Bleier

Evan is a senior editor with InsideHook who earned a master’s degree in journalism from NYU and has called Brooklyn home since 2006. A fan of Boston sports, Nashville hot chicken and Kentucky bourbon, Evan has had his work published in publications including “Maxim,” Bleacher Report and “The Daily Mail.”