am i crazy....but i'm pretty sure all bags are stored in their factories in stuff sacks, compressed or not, as well as the retail stores...i just got a new mountain hardware synthetic, and the thing came stuffed to the extreme!...so if the manufacture and retailers don't seem to care it can't be too drastic...depending on my trip i'll use the linen storage bag, and put my pillow and pad in the whole "sleep sack" longer trips i'm often forced to compress for packing up everything nice