Knowing how to pack potentially delicate products, transport them, and guarantee they arrive at their destination unharmed is likely a significant part of your everyday operations if your firm is an eCommerce, conventional retail, or supply-related organization. Customers and other professionals will lose respect and faith in your organization as a result of getting damaged items.
Furthermore, compensating for damaged items might result in a big financial loss for your organization. Damage-related expenses may quickly pile up, with the costs of producing, packing, and delivering damaged items, as well as the extra costs of replacing those products with new ones and transporting them, or even the possible need to repay angry consumers for their difficulty. And if you wind up losing the client — as well as other possible future customers as a result of poor reviews and word-of-mouth where the opportunity costs might be significant.
To minimize these hazards, you must understand how to pack delicate products for transportation. Here are some things to think about when selecting protective packaging for your items.
What is the best box to use to protect the items you're shipping?
To begin, you must select the appropriate box size to decrease void and the appropriate box thickness to ensure durability. Branded mailer boxes are appropriate for most use cases for shipping individual items to consumers. However, if your eCommerce firm includes larger, oddly shaped, or heavier products, you may want larger and/or thicker shipping boxes to handle them.
When delivering items in bulk (whether to retail locations, supply touchpoints, or B2B end customers), bigger and thicker boxes are required to assure product safety throughout the shipping process. However, in any usage situation, you'll want to decrease void as much as possible upfront by selecting boxes that are the right size for your items. Choosing the right-sized packing will also save you money because most shipping firms employ dimensional (DIM) weight pricing, which takes both box size and package weight into consideration when calculating final shipping costs.
What kind and how much cushioning do you require?
Polyurethane and polyethylene are two types of packing foam that offer exceptional protection while also making your goods and organisation look more professional. The following are the various applications for these two compounds.
Polyurethane foam is soft and open-celled, giving just the right amount of cushioning for lightweight delicate goods. Polyurethane may be modified in a variety of ways to meet your unique product and application, including anti-static versions to support electrical components and the ability to manufacture convoluted foam (egg crates), cushioning, and bespoke forms. Because polyurethane is the lighter of the two foam materials, it is also an excellent tool for lowering transportation costs because it reduces package weight.
Polyethylene foam, which is more close-celled and robust than polyurethane, is ideal for packaging heavy, fragile goods. Polyethylene may also be made into anti-static versions to protect delicate electrical or other combustible items and components, and it is more effective at safeguarding devices that require more shock absorption. Polyethylene foam remains somewhat dense than polyurethane, but the narrow, low absorption structure makes it harder to break apart and more appropriate to protect objects from liquids or other potential forms of pollution.
Polyurethane and polyethylene foam are both available in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colours to meet your functional and aesthetic requirements. We can also custom die-cut foam packing to protect small, complex, or fragile items firmly in place during even the most arduous shipping operations.
How Do You Properly Seal a Package?
If you don't seal packages appropriately to ensure they stay firmly closed throughout shipment, your entire protective packaging strategy may be jeopardized. Apply tape securely and evenly around all flaps and seams on both the top and bottom of your boxes to maintain the integrity of each product.
You must select the appropriate tape for your individual items in order for them to endure the shipping conditions. Tapes of various kinds are suitable for use in a variety of applications.
Is it important where you put a shipping label?
Yes! The positioning of your shipping label frequently influences which way individuals handling your shipments perceive your packages to be right-side-up, so make sure to arrange your shipping label appropriately and explicitly designate how fragile items should be handled.
Missing labels are one of the most prevalent reasons for delivery failure, so make sure you apply all labels in a way that ensures they stay attached throughout every stage of the shipping process. To do this, major shipping firms recommend that labels be applied to the biggest area of the shipment, rather than around corners or directly on box seams or edges.
