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n. Mailing Bag
A bag made of paper or plastic to protect an item when in transit, normally when mailing or transporting by courier
Designed for postal or courier transport, mailing bags are light, normally waterproof and have an adhesive strip as part of the design. The envelopes are available in a range of types and sizes as heavy duty mailers, mailorder and courier bags, with tamper-proof seals, with bubble-padding or as glossy or metallic presentation mailers for advertising and branding purposes.
Please see the buyers guide below which explains these different formats.
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Shopping > PackagingSimple but effective protection when posting an item - These mailing bags normally have a pre-printed address window and are a cheap way to send information to your customers and are much lighter than paper envelopes.
These are very lightweight protective envelopes are waterproof and are comparable in price to the featherlight paper-bubble mailers. They pad the item they are transporting in small bubbles of air for good protection.
These are plastic envelopes which have the touch and feel of paper envelopes (but are much stronger and waterproof).
Jiffybags have long set the standard for paper padded envelopes, and offer good protection in the post and have a self sealing strip to seal them closed. The bags can be bubble lined or pulp filled which are slightly heavier.
Strong bags ideal for sending 'mail order' items. Ideal for garments and quite sizeable products. The bags are often opaque and strong without being too thick (which would make them more expensive). Particularly good for ebay and paypal customers selling their products on-line..
These types of mailing bags are made from a thicker, opaque and strong co-extruded material and are best used when you need to be sure that the mailer can withstand some rough handling in transit.
These courier bags are normally large or very large courier and have double seals for extra toughness when being delivered.
Document enclosed bags are adhesive backed pouches which can adhere directly onto boxes or pallets with an extremely strong tack adhesive to give a professional look to your parcels.
These mailers help to ensure confidentiality and show evidence of tampering if interfered with. These bags are especially strong and can have different security mechanisms including tamper evident sealing strip bags, and even standalone security labels that display a 'VOID' message when tampered with which can be attached to the seals of a standard envelopes to convert them in to tamper-proof envelopes.
These are perhaps the most distinguished types of mailer, most commonly appearing as metallic silver mailing envelopes. Metallic envelopes are ideal for high impact mailings where you wish to impress the recipient with a sparkling package.
