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> Amazon returns drive me up the wall because unlike everyone else, they expect you to print your own labels.

I live in the EU, and I don’t know any e-commerce brands that ship you a label every time you request a return - that sounds incredibly wasteful.

My experience is they send a return label in with the product initially, and for some more high value items, they'll send a courier to pick up.

They also don't need barcodes for processing, so you can normally just write the address on the box.

UK here, and we don't print return labels for Amazon. We just take the package to the local store, and they scan the returns barcode on my phone which then prints a shipping label right there, and also doubles as an electronic receipt of where I handed over the parcel.

I suspect this could be more useful in a B2B setting (similar to how pallets are used today).