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What would Thoreau think?

I ordered a book for my son, who lives in Maine, from the Thoreau Society store located at Walden Pond. I received an email confirming my order, completely cool with that. Received an email about my order shipping, rather quickly I might add, very cool with that too. So I have these two emails, and in addition I can also go to the website and view my order and print any time I want. In the mail I received a printed receipt of my order, and another piece of paper notifying me it was shipped to Maine to my son and billed to me. My discount was not applied, but no matter ... what is with the paper waste?

My question is, why isn't the Thoreau Society living by Thoreau's principles?  I find it a bit wasteful to send me a receipt that I can print out myself, and what if I had? Not to mention the extra paper enclosed and the envelope. Shouldn't they be "printing responsibly?"