If you are sending personal parcels, or sending packages from your business, it’s critical to think of how to pack your items properly. Ensuring they stay safe throughout their journey, means your products or gifts will arrive in a beautiful condition for an exciting unboxing.
Packing Material: Box Or Bag?
Initially you need to decide on the packaging for your item. If you are sending an item that doesn’t need a lot of protection, you can use a soft bag for mailing, although this option isn’t as aesthetically pleasing. For an item that needs more protection, choose a new corrugated cardboard box, or you could use a mailer, colored box, wine shipper or other specialty box for a package with high presentation value.
Protecting Your Items
When sending items that are fragile and may need that extra level of protection inside the box, it’s important to add internal support to cushion your items properly. Wrap each item individually and add bubble wrap, air bags, polystyrene peanuts, foam inserts or crumpled paper to fully protect and insulate your parcel.
Secure and Label
Securely seal your package using packing tape, preferably two inches wide or more, for the ultimate protection. The most secure and safe sealing is offered by pressure sensitized plastic or nylon reinforced filament tape. After you have packed and sealed your item, attach a clear label with the recipient’s address and the sender’s address. Labels should be clear and legible to prevent confusion in the delivery process.
A Special Touch
If you are sending a gift for someone special or mailing an item to a customer from your business, you might want to add something unique and memorable to your packing. If you are a business, the packing and delivery of your product is part of the customer experience. Beautiful and customized packing material adds another level of excitement to the ‘unboxing’ or unwrapping of your items, and can even act as marketing to promote your product.
Professional Packing
Does this process sound like a lot of work and time? To send expertly wrapped and packaged items, it can be. Many businesses and busy people simply don’t have the time to invest in this process. Private mail boxes offer the ideal solution, as your personal mail management center. Along with other professional services, private mailboxes offer packing services to beautifully wrap, pack and protect your items according to your preference. A private mailbox can offer a full range of packing and shipping services so that whether you are sending a gift, or mailing your company’s products across the globe, they reach their destination safely and securely.
Whether it’s sending a gift or your business’s best product, choosing the right packing option is a vital step which ensures your package arrives safe, on time and in perfect condition.