How To Choose The Right Postal Packaging For Your Business

Postal packaging is one of our most popular products, with many of our customers running B2C ecommerce businesses, who need cost effective packaging to ensure their products get delivered in the best condition possible. 

With our years of experience we’ve created an ultimate guide to postal packaging to help you select the right postal boxes for your business. 

What is Postal Packaging?

As the name suggests postal packaging is packaging primarily used to protect items in transit. These boxes are different from your standard cardboard boxes. Postal packaging is a mixture of bags and boxes suitable for a range of product sizes. 

Choosing the Right Postal Packaging for your business

Every business has different needs, and packaging is not a one size fits all model. Your packaging needs are dependent on a number of factors including, size, weight of the products and transportation method used. Some of the questions you may want to ask of your product range would be:

• How many packaging options do I need? Are my products a similar size, weight and consistency? 
• How much protection do my products need? Do I need bubble wrap or void fill to reduce the chance of breakages? 
• Are there any restrictions from couriers on the size and weight of parcels? This will need to be considered when looking at packaging options. 
• Do you want plain or branded packaging for products? Our range of postal boxes can be fully branded.

We have detailed the main forms of postal packaging below with the main pros and cons to help you understand what would work best for your business.

Postal Boxes

Postal boxes are a lightweight, eco-friendly option available in a variety of sizes. Postal boxes are an ideal packaging solution for ecommerce businesses.These boxes provide high quality, robust protection for products in transit. The boxes are available in a mixture of sizes, colours and styles with specialist opinions on offer. The great thing about postal boxes is we have ranges that are suited to Royal Mail small parcel guidelines. 

Our range of postal boxes offers protective solutions perfect for ecommerce businesses with products of all shapes and sizes. We have standard postal boxes available in white and brown, these are our most cost effective options with 17 sizes available. For those who want a pop of colour we have quick seal postal boxes available in 8 different colours. Quick seal postal boxes are an excellent option to speed up the packaging process and the pull tear makes for easy opening.

If you are looking to send out larger items or a specific range of products we also have some specialist postal boxes available. Crash lock quick seal boxes come pre-printed with fragile warning signs to ensure your courier knows to be extra careful. If you are selling bottles of wine or other large bottles our bottle boxes come with a protective pulp inner and are available in single or double variants and offer great protection in transit against the elements.  

Mailing Bags

Mailing bags are the ideal packaging solution when sending out items which don’t need a high level of protection. These are perfect for sending out clothes and other soft items. Mailing bags are available in a mixture of sizes and colours. Paper bags are also available as an environmentally friendly option. 

Polythene mailing bags are an excellent cost effective solution with various sizes and colours available. These mailing bags are lightweight to minimise mailing costs. These are great for small items and fabric. They could also be used as an external layer when posting boxed items.  

Paper mailing bags are becoming an increasingly popular option for businesses looking to make more environmentally friendly choices. Our paper mailing bags are available in 3 sizes offering equal protection and ease of use with adhesive strips.

Bubble envelopes

Bubble envelopes are a great lightweight solution for smaller items requiring lightweight protection. Unlike the mailing bags, bubble envelopes come with a protective layer. These are suited to a variety of products such as books. 

Our range of Ecopad postal bags are a paper alternative to standard bubble bags. These have a honeycomb protective layer. For those looking for environmentally protective packaging these are an excellent choice offering the same protection whilst being fully recyclable.

Postal tubes

Postal tubes are the best packaging solution for products that can be rolled. These are  perfect for posters and other wall art that could easily be torn or damaged in transit. The tubes offer effective protection to products whilst in transit allowing you to rest easily knowing your customers will get exactly what they ordered.

Our brown postal tubes are available in 17 different sizes. This means our customers can select the packaging which will work best for their products. Each tube comes with end caps which fit tightly into the tube ensuring products remain safely stored inside.

Branded Postal Packaging

We offer custom printed postal packaging perfect if you are looking to improve your customer’s unboxing experience. Our team is on hand to help you through the whole process. We can assist you in getting printed postal boxes, bags and tape to finish it all off.

Printed packaging is an excellent marketing tool for any business. You want your packaging to stand out and be memorable for the right reasons. There are several ways to do this starting with branding your packaging elements. We explored this in more detail in a previous blog here.

Take a look at our printed box gallery for inspiration. If you want to get your own printed packaging get in touch with our helpful team for more information.