We have witnessed a lot of trends and fads come and go in the past few decades of our work in providing shipping solutions and packaging design. Sustainability is not one of them. Gratefully, sustainable practices have been incorporated into almost any product and facet...
Right-size your e-commerce boxes for big savings There are many reasons to “right size” or minimize the size of your e-commerce boxes. For example, many of our customers utilize a fulfillment operation and it is no secret that they charge per pallet to store your products...
Sustainable E-commerce Packaging – The good, the bad and the ugly The good, the Bad and the Ugly is not only the title of one of my favorite old (1966) Clint Eastwood westerns, it is also a good way to describe the way I see...
Box Insert Options for D2C E-commerce Packaging A quick search on the internet will confirm that there are many companies that sell boxes. Online catalog houses and retailer providers ranging from office supply stores to truck rental facilities all sell boxes in their basic, simplest form. What...
Packaging Sustainability in E-commerce – How to fix it! I think we all agree that as consumers, we LOVE e-commerce. How can we not appreciate the incredible variety and selection of products now, almost instantly available to us with a few clicks on our favorite internet...
Whether you are shipping organic baby clothes, tee shirts, or high fashion clothing, in our opinion there are few greater economic or environmental wastes than shipping soft goods in boxes. Keep in mind this opinion comes from a guy who sells boxes for a living...
Both peanuts and bubble are very effective when used correctly and for the right application. They can do a great job of cushioning and protecting delicate, expensive and fragile items such candles, ceramics, picture frames and even artwork. The drawback of both peanuts and bubble is...
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As the name would imply, “bubble on demand” is essentially un-inflated bubble packaging you inflate on an as needed basis. The benefits of this type of packaging material are enormous when you consider the cost of transporting and storing “pre-inflated” or ready to use flowable materials such as foam peanuts, pre-formed paper products or even rolls of pre-inflated bubble packaging. All of those space consuming products also leave a substantial carbon footprint behind compared to bubble on demand type products.
It’s difficult to believe that we’ve been doing this for three years, but this week marks the third anniversary of the launch of our popular blog. In 2008, our then-marketing director Brad Shorr urged us to blog and share what we know and what we do, with the world. I reluctantly agreed, even though operating a business that openly ran contrary to my nature as well as my experience in the packaging industry, where you learn to never, ever risk educating the competition.
Nearly 300 blog posts later, I am thrilled by the results of our outreach and even more grateful for the people and companies it has brought into our lives. If we have educated a competitor or two along the way, it was a small price to pay for the information we’ve been able to share with hundreds, if not thousands, of people, as well as the relationships we have made.
One of the things we most appreciate is the feedback we receive from our ISP readers, which is quite often sent to us offline. To commemorate this three year milestone we’ve shared a few of the most frequently asked questions.
A quick look at today’s headlines or the nearest gas pump confirms oil prices are on a steep rise, which ultimately impacts natural gas and plastic resin prices as well as everything we buy or use that contains plastic. Experts tell us there is no end in sight, so as we see plastic packaging going through the roof with some products experiencing multiple price increases in the last six months, it’s a great time to remind our readers that almost any plastic packaging solution has a paper-based alternative.