When you hear the word “packaging”, what image comes to mind? More likely than not, it’s a corrugated cardboard box. A corrugated shipping carton is as standard as packaging supplies get, available in a wide variety of sizes and styles to serve a wide range of needs. Of course, in order to properly protect the items you’ve placed inside of them, these cartons need to be properly sealed with durable packing tape.

So you just need to put some tape on the box and you’re all set, right? Yes and no. Tape is an absolute necessity in shipping, but you also need to make sure that you’re applying it right. In this article, we will go over the types of tapes to use and, of course, how to tape a box in the first place so you can prevent product damage, delayed operations, and unhappy customers.

What Tape is Best for Sealing Cartons?

Not all tapes are up to the task. For instance, save your masking tape for the next painting job since it doesn’t

How do you keep your stuff cold? It’s a question we’ve long sought to answer. From British sailors packing their fish with ice in the 1700s to Frederick Jones patenting the refrigerated delivery truck in the 1930s, we have a long history of using the cold to keep our goods fresh. These days, we use the term “cold chain” when discussing the technologies and methods of keeping goods cold and fresh. In this positively frosty article, we will go over what cold chain packaging is, the different types, and common cold chain packaging products.

What is Cold Chain Packaging?

Cold chain packaging refers to all the processes and equipment required to keep products at a constant temperature from manufacturing all the way to retail and their final destination. Cold chain packaging has a tough job to fulfill: it needs to keep goods at freezing

The United States jewelry market is estimated to be worth approximately $60.42 billion. While visiting a brick-and-mortar jewelry store is the common course of action, more and more yearly sales are attributable to online transactions. No matter if you run a jewelry store, you’re an Etsy entrepreneur, or you’re simply gifting some jewelry to a special someone, you need to make sure that your jewelry is safe and secure throughout the entire shipping process. You not only need to prevent your goods from getting damaged, but you also need to conceal these high-value items from potential thieves and vandals. In this article, we will go over 8 steps for how to ship your jewelry safely.

1. Clean the Jewelry

Your parents always said to clean up for appearances and it turns out they were right. Therefore, pick yourself

The Stretchorcist

Something’s wrong with Shikha MacNeil, the girl from down the lane. It seemed innocent at first when she began talking to an imaginary friend who she claimed was a delivery man, but things quickly turned sinister. Seemingly out of nowhere, the furniture shakes and moves on its own, strips of plastic film creep in from the corners of the walls, and previously loose articles are suddenly bundled and palletized. Fearing the worst, her mother calls the local packaging supply company to perform a stretchorcism, where evil and low-quality packaging materials are dispelled from the home. When the two packaging experts arrive, they find