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<h1>How Custom Sized Boxes for Shipping Can Save Your Business Thousand of Dollars</h1>
Are you paying good money to ship air and foam peanuts to your customers?
Unless you’re using custom-sized boxes, the unfortunate answer is a big fat yes.
These days, customize packaging is so much more than a physical expression of your brand. Of course, great packaging can get customers excited about what’s inside and create share-worthy unboxing experiences, but custom-sized packaging is also an opportunity to save you thousands of dollars in shipping fees.
<h2>What’s the Cost of NOT Using Custom-Sized Boxes?</h2>
Now that most major carriers use ‘dimensional weight’ (DIM) pricing, shipping fees are calculated based on package volume, rather than just weight. This prevents delivery trucks from filling up without maxing out their weight capacity (which reduces profit per truckload), but can make shipping more costly for retailers.
DIM pricing means that anytime you use an oversized box (maybe because your product isn’t a standard size), you could be paying a premium for that wasted space.
If you’ve noticed a major hike in shipping costs this year, you’re not alone. Dimensional weight fees went up in January 2017 when most carriers reduced the DIM factor from 166 to 139. This might sound alright at first, but this change resulted in a 20% higher DIM weight.
<h2>A Tale of Two Retailers</h2>
Let’s custom cupcake boxes take a look at how e-commerce retailers can use custom-sized boxes can save on shipping.
Meet Devin. He runs a successful Shopify store selling jewelry, watches, prints, and decal stickers. Business is booming, his customers are happy, and he’s making around $5,000 in sales every month. Not bad, right?
Since Devin’s products are a range of different sizes, he uses a bigger box than necessary for most of his shipments. To prevent damage during delivery, he stuffs each box with foam peanuts. He knows it’s not a perfect solution, but it does the trick.
<h2>Great Things Come in Custom Packages</h2>
At Packlane, we’re committed to helping e-commerce businesses design custom packaging that fits their products perfectly. That’s why we offer a range of high-quality materials and give you the power to fully customize your box dimensions and design. With minimum orders as low as a single unit, you can try our custom-sized packaging with no strings attached
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