While ebooks and audiobooks have never been more popular, printed books remain a major force in modern literature. In fact, 767.36 million printed books were sold in 2023 in the United States alone. Despite what many might think, print media is not going away anytime soon.

Unfortunately, printed books aren’t terribly durable. Paper is thin and fragile and books are liable to bend and tear. However, you are still more than capable of shipping your favorite books without worrying about damaging them. In this literate article, we will cover how to ship a book and what to expect when you ship.

Choose Your Packaging

Your choice of packaging depends on what exactly you’re shipping.

If you’re shipping around 1-4 books, you’re likely better off using a mailing envelope. Boxes come in a set size and if you’re not using

Choosing the right-sized box for your goods can feel like the story of Goldilocks: this box is too big, this box is too small, this box is too long, and so on. But choosing the box that’s just right helps to ensure that your goods are adequately protected throughout shipping, handling, and storage.

You may consider this a fairly simple matter since you only need a box that’s about the size of the item you’re shipping. Yes and no. While you’re not wrong, boxes come in so many different sizes, shapes, and types these days that it can sometimes feel confusing figuring out which one’s the right one for you. This article is here to provide some clarity on choosing the right size box for your goods so that you can ship with confidence.

How Big is Your Item?

This one’s the most obvious, and perhaps the most important. As a rule of thumb, you want to choose packaging that’s slightly larger than the dimensions of your items so that it fits

Vinyl is back. In fact, as of 2022, vinyl record sales have eclipsed CD sales for the first time in 35 years. In the increasingly streaming-dominated age, physical records have their steadfast appeal with their warm sound and guarantee that they won’t be taken away on a whim.

However, vinyl records are quite fragile. The material is thin, brittle, and can warp when exposed to high heat and pressure. If you plan to send any records in the mail, you need to ensure that they are well-protected against anything that shipping and handling might throw at them. In this blog, we’ll drop the needle on how to mail vinyl records safely and securely.

1. Remove the Record and Clean It

Before you pack your vinyl, you first want to make sure that it’s in good condition. Gently remove the record from its outer jacket, then from its inner sleeve.

Packaging can be quite stressful, but perhaps not in the way you’re thinking. While you may be dealing with the stresses of deadlines, customer demands, and daily operations, your packing tape will encounter a different kind of stress: adhesive stress.

Adhesive stress refers to how the adhesive bond is pulled, stretched, and otherwise deformed when acted upon by external forces. In this sticky article, we will go over the five types of stress your tape will face throughout packaging and shipping.

Tensile Stress

Tensile stress occurs when the adhesive bond is elongated or pulled apart by external forces moving away from each other. The direction of the pulling is perpendicular to the bond and the stress is distributed evenly across the surface.

Whether you’re a construction worker on the jobsite, or a DIY-er looking to improve their home, you want to keep the areas you’re not working on safe from the areas you are working on. The last thing you need when you’re in the middle of a project is your floors getting stained or damaged. That, and a devastating apocalyptic event.

Luckily for you, surface protection tape is available to answer your safeguarding needs. This adhesive film is easily unrolled onto your floors and keeps them safe from debris, stains, scrapes, and other kinds of common damage. However, some important steps need to be taken to ensure that your hard surface or carpet protection tape stays in place and works properly.

Clean the Surface

Before you apply an inch of tape, you need to clean the surfaces you intend to protect. For hard surfaces, dust and sweep to get rid of loose specks and particles. Then, mop your hard surfaces and let them dry before applying

On Monday, August 8^th, 2024, the moon will pass directly in front of the sun and create a total solar eclipse. Those in the path of totality of the so-called “Great North American Eclipse” will get to witness a potentially once-in-a-lifetime event:

Hopefully, you’ve already stocked up on CE and ISO-certified 12312-2 solar eclipse glasses that block harmful infrared and ultraviolet rays when you watch the eclipse. But there’s more to the eclipse than just what’s in the sky; in fact, there are plenty of phenomena happening all around that you can’t miss out on. With the help of our very own packaging supplies, here are three solar eclipse experiments you can perform to make the most of it.

Pinhole

Electrostatic Discharge, or ESD, can be devastating in packaging and shipping. This issue is no more prevalent than in the world of electronics and flammables, where items are incredibly sensitive to static shock. In fact, experts estimate the global cost of ESD damage to be around $5 billion per year.

Unfortunately, a common culprit for this is none other than the packaging. When you unwind a roll of packing tape or place two stretch-wrapped pallets too close to each other, the surface friction can build static electricity; your packaging can end up harming your goods instead of protecting them!

Fortunately, there is a solution: anti-static packaging. Materials like anti-static stretch wrap are specially manufactured and chemically treated to resist ESD. In this shocking article, we will cover how electrostatic discharge works and how anti-static stretch

Glove Actually

It’s an anthology of sanitary love! Set during the holidays in Nitri-London, we follow a series of interconnected stories of love, sorrow, and self-discovery. The Polyethylene Minister develops feelings for a PVC dotted glove working in his household staff. A deadbeat synthetic-vinyl rockstar attempts to rekindle his stalled career with a holiday song about keeping your hands safe. A food service glove and mother of two suspects her string knit husband is unfaithful. A recently-single brown jersey glove forms a close friendship with his latex housekeeper, eventually discovering that he wants to be more than