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3 Easy Tips To Ship Green & Save Money

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Shipping costs can be frustrating and expensive, often discouraging customers from sending out gifts or special packages. Check out the 3 tips listed below to help you lower your shipping costs while saving the environment!

1. REUSE OLD BOXES: Ship your packages in boxes that you’ve received. Just remove the shipping label and reuse. You can create a stamp saying that it’s a reused box just to let your recipient know and encourage them to do the same!

2. USE KRAFT PAPER INSTEAD OF EXPENSIVE MAILERS: If you do not have a fragile product, there is a great thick brown KRAFT paper that is USPS approved (LePages or 3M work well). Wrap your present and stamp your branding so they know whom it is coming from. You have to use more tape to avoid punctures, but it’s 100% recycled paper and 100% post consumer content. It saves a lot of trees and money because it is light to ship and is a fraction of the cost of mailers!

3. STAMP IT UP: Gift it Green creator uses stamps for branding to avoid waste and label costs. BONUS…it spices up a boring brown box or paper.

The developer of Gift It Green did a lot of research and found a few easy ways to go green and save on shipping costs. Thanks for asking me to share these tips with my blog readers!

 

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  1. shipping forwarder says

    I have used many Courier services/companies but I did not get much difference in cost. Recently I used parcelbound.com to buy 5 cell phones and I have saved my 75% in each cell phone. They really providing lowest shipping rates then other companies. May be this company is not popular that is why they providing lowest rates to their clients.

  4. Angela Cash says

    I learned that Gigs were designed to be gifted forward (and forward). You can keep track of how many places
    by placing the city, state on the inside tag. Cool idea!

  7. Paul T/Pauline T says

    I like that it has a size guide that tell you what fits in it – – Paul T/Pauline T aka Paul Tran….. emscout9 at Hotmail dot com

  13. Angela Kinder says

    I learned that most wrapping paper and gift bags are not recyclable and contribute to four million tons of trash annually in U.S.

  15. Lyndi Malarchuk says

    Most wrapping paper and gift bags are not recyclable and contribute to four million tons of trash annually in U.S.

  21. Ani says

    I like the Green Christmas design, would love to gift something in that this year for Christmas.

  24. Amanda Alvarado says

    I want the Green Christmas one in both the small & medium! I wish they had it in a large too!

  27. hollylynn says

    They are fabric gift wrapping “boxes” that can be wiped clean. Unfortunately, made in China. Still a good idea

  36. Jenny Lloyd says

    what a great idea! i love the green christmas and the it’s a hoot pattern. i love that it is reusable….2 gifts in 1

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