PackagingFilter - Desperately seeking specialty packaging.

February 6, 2006 7:46 PM

PackagingFilter - Desperately seeking specialty packaging: Die-cut, corrugated plastic mailers?

I've been searching far and wide for specialty packaging for a mailing I am doing. I did a similar mailing in 2000 but the company I used is no longer in business.

I'm looking for black, die-cut, plastic corrugated mailers roughly the size of a book: 10 x 8 x 4in

I've just about Google'd myself out and I'm wondering if there are certain keywords I'm missing.

Thanks in advance.

posted by bkdelong to Work & Money (6 answers total)

I don't know if this will help, but Packaging Specialties has a huge range of packaging materials. There website kind of sucks, but I'd try calling both the number on the page linked above, and one of their stores.
posted by Good Brain at 8:22 PM on February 6, 2006

Victory Packaging
Polyair
Sealed Air


All are national, Victory all over North America. All are primarily "to the trade" but will do larger individual orders.
posted by pomegranate at 8:47 PM on February 6, 2006

Also try Atlas Packaging. They have corrugated plastic & mailers listed in their product line. You could probably find something close.
posted by jaimystery at 3:31 AM on February 7, 2006

I second Victory Pacakging. Not only are they one of the biggest in North America, but their corporate headquarters is close to my office.
posted by marc1919 at 6:58 AM on February 7, 2006

Great, thanks all.
posted by bkdelong at 4:28 PM on February 7, 2006

For the record, Go Packaging was the best company to use for this job.

I sent a request for a quote on a SATURDAY and their sales guy got back to me in an hour or two. Their turnaround was also amazingly fast - one day for white plastic corrugated and two for black - they had to order a sheet of black.

Had we had our ducks in a row, I could have given them a credit card Sunday and they would have been done Monday and shipped out Tuesday Next Day to arrive on Wednesday.

Very impressive.

HOWEVER, the thing that killed us was the overnight shipping. Because it was going from Chicago to San Francisco, the cost was almost as much as the job itself.

In the future, I'm going to try to find a company that makes such boxes in the same city or state as the shipping address.

I was amazed at how hard it was to find companies that

1) carried plastic corrugated (note that I had the term wrong as corrugated plastic) - especially in black.

2) That had preexisting dies for die-cut, self-locking mailers that we could use instead of paying $500+ for a one-time die tooling.

3) That could handle an order less than 500 units

4) That could do rapid turnaround.

All-in-all it was very embarassing for the industry - they're heavily unorganized and make it very difficult to find what one needs.
posted by bkdelong at 5:45 AM on March 2, 2006