Whenever you need to ship an item out, it is of key importance that you pack it in a way that will ensure its safe delivery. This is the case whether you are running a large-scale shipping department, you own your own small business, or you are simply shipping something out to a friend or relative. 

There are a variety of box fillings that can help to cushion the contents that you are sending out. Different types of items are best protected by a variety of different box filling materials. The most important thing is ensuring that the contents are protected and secure so that they make it to their destination fully intact.

It is a general rule of thumb that the type of item being shipped will dictate how you are going to cushion it as a part of the packing process. Another point to remember is the importance of choosing a box that is of an appropriate size. This means selecting a box that does not leave an excessive area of a void that will have to be filled up. At the same time, there does have to be some space left for cushioning material.

Electronic items generally do well with padding that is provided by non-static wraps. Packing peanuts can provide additional help due to their ability to reduce electrical charges that could occur during the process of shipping. The most important thing is finding ways to effectively fill any voids in the box that the item will be shipped in. This can include the use of materials such as kraft paper, loose-fill, bubble products, and foam. 

The Different Varieties of Bubble Wrap

Bubble wrap is one of the most popular types of cushioning material used to ensure the safe delivery of items that are shipped out. It is composed of plastic sheeting that has air bubbles that come in a variety of different sizes. 

Bubble wrap is available in several forms. These include bubble wrap that comes in rolls. These can include perforations or no perforations. The material is also available in sheets as well as pouches. There is also the option for bubble wrap that includes an adhesive that helps it to cling to the box. Which choice of bubble wrap that is used will depend on the type of item. For electronics, it is usually recommended to use a wrap with large bubbles. These provide added protection and have anti-static properties.

Using Kraft Paper and Loose-Fill Material

When shipping out light items of an irregular shape, some of the best options are kraft paper and loose-fill material. Kraft paper comes in precut sheets as well as rolls. This paper can be crumpled up to fill in any voids. Loose-fill material such as packing peanuts made out of polystyrene is another great option that can help to ensure that all sides of a box are cushioned. 

The Foam Filler Option

Foam filler is yet another popular and effective option for providing cushion to items that you are shipping out in boxes. Air foam products work similarly to the way that bubble wrap does. They can be used as foam wraps and they can also be used to pad the corners and the edges of the box that the item is being shipped in. These sheets come in a variety of different widths and they are sold in rolls. There are perforated and non-perforated options available.

I absolutely love getting together with my friends. I have many special friends in my life that I have met through college, work, church, and other communities I have been a part of. Getting together with my close friends and family is so rewarding and refreshing after a long week at work or at school. Another one of my passions is hosting parties. I have always enjoyed being able to have people over in my living spaces and enjoy their time and company. I like putting on small parties and gatherings for birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, and really any other occasion where one might throw a party! It is such a great way to connect with people you may have not seen for a long time or are wanting to stay in touch. I believe there are several important steps in throwing great parties, and I’d love to share them with you!

The first step is to have a good space to allow a party or gathering to happen. For me, I have recently enjoyed moving into a new home. I picked out a place big enough for myself, but also a good kitchen/living space with which to put on events or parties. My new house has a modern kitchen with two large ovens, a drop-down sink, and a granite island in the middle. I love this part of the house because it offers such a unique space for baking, eating, and hanging out. My living room is also home to a few nice couches with a TV that allows for people to gather and be entertained during a party.  If you aren’t as lucky to have a great house like mine, there are other places that you may be able to throw a good party in your own home. Basements can work as they are usually large, but it has to be furnished (not dark or damp, this is not good for a party!). I would say you may have the best luck with a house rather than an apartment, as houses generally run quite a bit bigger. Anyways, once you have your spot, you want to get the proper ingredients for a great party!

Drop what you’re doing right now, and go to the store. You have to get delicious food if you want to throw a really good party. I’m not just talking about spaghetti and meatballs; I’m talking pizza, buffalo wings, charcuterie boards, burgers, tacos, vegetable and fruit trays, smoked salmon, chips, and nachos. Also, make sure you are buying candy. Buy as many candy boxes as you can fit in your cart! The most important thing is to get food that will keep people happy and leave them satisfied with the party. 

Once the party is over, you are unfortunately left with a lot of clean-up. Hopefully, the people you invited aren’t super messy, but you never know. I’ve thrown parties that left me picking up plastic cups, candy boxes, and chip wrappers for hours. People love to party, but not necessarily to clean up the party! This is sort of the flipside of throwing a party in your house. However well it goes, you are usually left cleaning up by yourself. Personally, I still think the pros outweigh the cons of throwing a party. Good luck with your future party hosting endeavors. Remember to have fun and invite the people you love!

This should be obvious, but you want to make sure that your contents get from one point to the next with minimal issues. A lot of businesses do not realize that packaging is really important for a variety of functions, besides the correct transport.  Here, we’ll discuss how in the world you should focus on your shipping packaging, and why it matters. 

Safety First 

If you want to make sure that your packaging is safe from one point to the next, then you need to ensure the correct safety. A lot of factors cause the packages to be damaged, lost, or it’s not usable after a while. Drops, punctured holes, and even shocks due to being dropped, on top of weather problems, it can all hit at once, and it’s important that you understand that the correct packaging does prevent a lot of this. Packaging is similar to a bodyguard, which helps guide the person from point A to point B, but also stopping anything in its tracks. 

They Help with Loos 

While yes, looks aren’t going to be the only thing, having packaging that doesn’t look bland and boring, or unsettling or unseemly is important. Colors, logos, and even slogans and other writing all play a part in the project at hand. But if you actually think about this type of packaging that’s used to ship out everything will help to get customers to see the items, improve the sales, and also offer goodwill and identification of the product to clients now, and in the future. You want the packages to stand out even when being transported, and it can help make the packaging look much better too, and also offers a marketing point for most companies. 

Offers Sustainability 

Shipping does cost a lot of resources, especially waste and trash that isn’t recyclable, so making sure that you have good packaging is much more eco-friendly when weighting the options for product mailing. Avoid as much plastic as you can in the packaging that you use, and you can actually use recyclable materials in order to ensure that the items are reused and recycled in many different ways. 

A lot of companies nowadays are offering a greener option, and a lot are looking towards packaging to help the environment, and also give s more humane decision to others when they purchase items. You should be smart with packaging, and pack it smartly so that you can help the planet, and this of course, will offer a better more rewarding result of this too. 

Offers Speedy Options 

Finally, it actually offers faster delivery when you use the correct packaging. Did you know that? A lot of packaging that’s small, kept perfectly sealed, and easy to transport does make delivery a lot faster. When you can have the product travel with a lot of other packages, a lot of delivery personnel push it through faster, so they can put this on pallets, tote all of this, and even sort and stack everything, guaranteeing a ride that’s faster and smoother. 

Products that are well packaged will indeed stay in one location when being shipped, so if you want your packages to be quick and to minimize the delays, you’ll want something that travels quite far, and quite fast. These are the main reasons, but there’s a lot more on why you should have packaging that works, so you should, as a business owner, also ensure that you’re getting the right packaging for all of your products, in the best ways that are totally possible too. 

When your business is mostly an online venture, the first touchpoint for customers is low and behold, the packaging that’s there. Without people touching these in person, the package needs to actually help you get customers. Custom designs are good because they allow for a personalized product that makes the customer feel like there is effort into packaging these orders. They do help make products look good and stand out, and this of course can be packaging that helps customers see the product immediately, creating excitement for those who look at and open up their boxes. 

Custom box designs also help with protecting the products that’s there, and it’s something that protects the products much more than normal boxes may. There is also packaging protection that’s important for businesses because this is pretty much how the boxes get carried out, and shipping is much different than just putting it on a store shelf. Those items that are handled by stores are usually not handled as much as a shipping box, and usually the retail shipping that’s done is done on pallets and forklifts, so there is more chance for this to be damaged. 

For ecommerce products, the package may be handled by many different shipping places, trucks, and the like until you get to the destination, and there is of course, more risk that comes with this. Custom boxes oftentimes help to ensure that the products are given the best protection that’s possible, in order to create a package that performs in the same way as the products need to. Products which are damaged are a nightmare for business. A business may die with a few reviews of customers complaining about this, and they’re much more likely to cut ties with business people if the product is broken and doesn’t work. With better protection of products, you can also help make sure that people aren’t upset with the product that they get. 

 Custom Boxes and their unique approach 

Custom boxes oftentimes offer a unique experience to a lot of people. It’s challenging because a lot of people have to rely on people buying based on what they see in pictures and the product description. There are frequent returns, with a high return percentage compared to retail. 

But ecommerce people do want to make sur that the shipping process for returning is simple. You can set up custom boxes to look good, stay strong during the journey to the customer, and when they need to return it for one reason or another, you make it easy for them to put the return label onto there, and they even offer corrugated mailers that go with tear ships, and the person can sue that to ship their product once more. It also makes a good impression on the customers with this kind of custom packaging. You can create custom boxes that offer sustainability, which is a growing and hot topic for a lot of concerned customers, and if you make it easier for them to recycle this than ever before, you can create a or engaging, fun business. 

The customers want packaging that the can break down and recycle. Sustainability isn’t just a trend anymore, but instead an expectation, and you don’t want to be viewed poorly because you used a box that’s considered frowned upon in terms of packaging. Remember though, no matter what, the ecommerce packaging that you have should be based on what audiences want from this, and you want the packaging to reflect the business, in order to help them come bac and purchase from you once more too. 

Picking out gifts can be challenging. With the holiday season drawing nearer, people scramble to find relevant gifts that their recipients will love. I often find myself spending way too much time brainstorming gift ideas. The hardest part is knowing that the gift you buy might not be fully appreciated or loved by the person you are giving it to. As heartbreaking as this is, I still believe that finding a gift that a person really enjoys is so rewarding. There is something special about watching a family or loved one open a gift and seeing their eyes light up, “Wow, this is perfect!”. 

If you are having troubling thinking about gift ideas or feel like you can’t find anything to give to a particular person in your life, I may have a solution for you. This gift idea has worked 90% of the time for me. It’s a subscription to a monthly candy box! Now I know what you’re thinking… A candy box subscription, really? Yes! Here’s the thing; almost everyone loves candy, especially new candy from around the world. There are companies that will send a unique monthly box of candy directly to your door from different countries all over the world. If the person who you buy this box for doesn’t absolutely love it, they probably aren’t worth buying a gift for in the first place.

Now there are many different companies that sell these candy boxes. The important thing to remember is that you must pick out the subscription that will most appeal to the gift recipient. Some companies like Treatsbox offer a wide range of candy, and each box offers a new selection with current and old favorites. There are multiple differently sized boxes of candy that you can order, each one being at a different price point. For a gift idea, I would recommend small or medium size boxes. That way, on the off chance that your gift recipient doesn’t like the candy, they won’t be stuck with large amounts of unopened candy boxes, and you won’t be stuck with a larger price tag on your gift. The candy will come in a wide variety in each box, so there will never be a moment of boredom when opening your monthly box!

Another great candy box subscription is through a company called SnackCrate. The great thing about this company is that you can customize your box every month to cater to your specific tastes and preferences! Whether your gift recipient is more of a chocolate, sweet, savory, or spicy person, SnackCrate can deliver. These boxes also come from around the world, so you can send your family member or loved one candy that they have never seen or heard of! One of my friends sent me a box of candy from Turkey. I had so much fun exploring and learning about the different types of candy and other snacks from Turkey, and I even found some new favorites!

I hope that this was helpful to you in your search for gift ideas. Remember, the most important part about buying a gift for someone else is that your intentions are good. Finding something that your gift recipient will really enjoy can be difficult, but I have complete faith that you will be able to figure it out. 

I have always dreamed of one day opening a candy store. It might be a simple ambition, one that contrasts the majority of ‘American dreams’, but I have always had such a passion for it. It all started when I took a trip to Indianapolis and spent time walking around the city. As I browsed through all the shops in the main city, peering through different windows at luxurious designer clothing stores, furniture departments, expensive restaurants, and various cafes, there was one store that caught my eye; it was a candy store! 

I walked in and became so immersed in the beautiful, vibrant colors and smells of sweet treats that stocked the shelves and lined the walls. The owner of the store, a wonderful woman named Cindy, offered to give me a tour of the store and show me all the amazing products they offered. From chocolates, suckers, jelly beans, gummy bears, soda pop, truffles, and baked goods, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing! So many candy boxes and packages of sweet treats on display. I couldn’t possibly leave without getting some goodies for myself. Yes, I may have splurged a little bit, but it was so worth it. Now I just have to remember to brush my teeth well after spending so much money on candy.

I walked away from that store feeling different. In my heart, I knew that I wanted to be like Cindy someday. She seemed so happy and so proud of what she had accomplished. Owning and operating a candy store is hard, no doubt, but it gave her a purpose, and it was something she believed in. I asked Cindy several questions about owning a candy store while I was there. The first major hoop to jump through is finding a building through which I can run my operation. This is no easy task, says Cindy, as it’s important to find a building that is in a heavily trafficked area and has the potential to set up a really nice shop. I can imagine I’ll need a fairly big loan to be able to afford a building. Cindy also explained that renovations would need to be done in order to get the store up and running. Candy stores need to be bright and colorful; they need to be warm and inviting. 

Cindy also let me in on a lot of different ‘tricks of the trade’ of owning and operating a candy store. One of the most important things is to have the right products in stock. Customers can be picky about what kind of candy they prefer when they like to buy it, and the price they are willing to pay. Therefore, ordering various candy boxes and chocolate packages on a regular basis to keep the customers happy is absolutely critical. Then there is the problem of marketing the store well and increasing foot traffic through your business. Cindy explained that she regularly places advertisements in newspapers, sporting events, etc. Social media plays a huge part in marketing a small business like a candy store, Cindy also explained. For her store, Cindy has a Facebook page, an Instagram page, a Tik Tok page, and a website. These pages are helpful in allowing her to engage with her customers in her community.

If there’s one thing I hope you take away from this article, it’s that you should always pursue your passions!