The packaging made from sustainable materials assumes more and more relevance. Where brands prefer creative forms of packing such as mailer boxes and corrugated boxes, which are at the same time functional and stackable. This guide is aimed at discussing mailer boxes and also gives interesting alternatives on the usage of corrugated boxes to find greener options.
What Are Mailer Boxes?
Made in paperboard, a mailer box represents a kind of eco-friendly packaging material capable of multiple reuses. Unlike most shipping cartons, mailing boxes enhance packaging, are recyclable, and do not require adhesive tapes. Strong construction and the possibility for customization enable multiple functions, from shipping parcels from e-stores to preparing promotional kits. There are various shapes, colors, and sizes of the mailer boxes available for businesses to satisfy their branding needs.
Maximizing Your Brand with Mailer Boxes External Branding
Mailer cartons are unique in that they can be externally branded forms of advertisement for a business. For example, these boxes have the main company logo or main stickers inside them; thus, as it is visible, customers and everyone get to see these boxes or even carry them for a marketing promotional event. Since most people forget a new brand after its essence is captured, being visible at different times at different places makes one faithful to the brand.
Internal Branding: Branding does not end at the exterior surface. The interior of the box can also accommodate a branding message. For instance, a simple logo or even words about your new offerings can be placed on the inside of the lid to engage customers more interestingly as they open their products.
Always professional: The choice of sustainable material means good packaging design. Consumer mailer boxes of Kraft paper look that good and have an association with the green cause. This eco-friendly option will sell the product to its consumers and earn their loyalty towards the brand.
Packaging Personalization: The enhancement of customer experiences through packaging personalization is critical. Custom messages on the mailer boxes lift the customers' feelings. Sending mailer boxes, perhaps during the holiday seasons, with utmost courtesy will, in turn, strengthen customers' loyalty.
Other Ways to Use Custom Stickers: Custom stickers are one of the most powerful branding tools. Some use them to seal boxes, others to enhance the design, while some stickers provide very important information on the product. The possibilities range widely from sophisticated foil stickers to die-cut ones, leaving it to your content to dictate the style of your packaging.
Here’s how to re-use corrugated boxes
By Using the Box Without AlterationsÂ
Many tend to recycle or upcycle their cardboard directly for sending packages. Check first whether your box is clean and has no signs of damage either. Scrape off the old shipping labels and reuse this box when sending out your packages. Most companies know how to take advantage of this pattern and cut down overheads while supporting the environmental issues.
Fire Starter LogsÂ
For those who love the outdoors, cardboard boxes can also be transformed into fire starter logs, where the flatten pieces are soaked in water till they break, after which they can be rolled up with a string before the final pound. Dried logs are always good enough as environment-friendly fire starters that one can carry for camping or an outdoor bonfire.
Collages and Murals
Both young and old in age could free their imaginations through art activities with old standing boxes as a venue to draw. Get those boxes, flatten them and ask the children to color on it, paint it or collage it. Although fun, this is but another way of repurposing the cardboard boxes, except that this time, creativity reigns.
Organizers for Office Supplies
Making office and craft organizers out of cardboard would be a perfect way to declutter the house. Small boxes could very well be turned into storage for many fun items in the home office, finishing touches being done by tagging for easy sorting and a more pleasant atmosphere.Â
Curdles & Homemade Invitation
Be creative and get the really thin strips of cardboard from the boxes and make plain postcard and curdles out of them. You could also employ your own artistic talents or cut and paste pictures from old magazines. It even becomes interesting to keep the used cardboard boxes as they turn into cards instead of being thrown away.
Plant Silphon: Garden Weeding
Then there's using flat corrugated boxes as weed barriers if someone is also necessarily interested in such a house. Put flat boxes in place before sowing seeds and bury them. This will help in resisting weed growth naturally, without using any harmful agents, thus allowing your plants to thrive while the flat corrugated boxes enjoy a second use.
Plastic Glue, Creative Picture FramesÂ
Who doesn't have old boxes to repurpose into pollution-free picture frames? Cut the boxes according to dimensions required, get crafty with paints or paper and position your pictures just as you want. The new frames not only give your pictures a different home but also serve to show obvious repurposing in action.
Projects in Paper MacheÂ
Anyone with crafts can build paper mache from those old cardboard boxes. Cut boxes into strips, soak them in water and glue and shape into figures. Such fun projects are good for lots of people, and it's a great way to use up cardboard.
Home-Made InstrumentsÂ
Get all creative by trying to build some musical instruments out of the coffers. So, you may fashion a makeshift guitar out of a box and some rubber bands. This project is very educational and entertaining creativity but also found in disposal of boxes.
Weaving Looms Making
Learn all about weaving after a nice little fun activity concerning how-to-make-a-loom using corrugated sheets. Cut the boxes into strips and glue them back together to form a really long lever. This project is for those who would like to give textile arts a try in what will be an otherwise empty space.
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