When to Use a Mailing Tube

Mailing Tubes

The key in any shipping any item is to use packaging that is not going to be a burden to the post office or whatever delivery business that you are using. This can be a problem when the item that you are shipping is wide and thin, such as a poster.

For that item, you could flatten a box, slip it in, and then seal the edges. Unfortunately, wide and flat packages have a way of taking up far too much space and have a tendency to get bent in the shipping process. The best way to ship a poster-sized item is to roll it up and use a mailing tube.

A mailing tube is solid, and they come in many colors besides the traditional brown mailing tubes. There are also white mailing tubes, red mailing tubes, blue mailing tubes, black mailing tubes, gold mailing tubes, yellow mailing tubes, and green mailing tubes. There are also crimped end mailing tubes can be easily sealed by pinching them shot or the tradition version that only requires extra end caps. You may consider using other space saving mailing tubes including triangular mailers and square mailing tubes. They are available for a low price if bought in bulk.

Mailing Tubes That Soar

We’re proud of practical uses of the materials we sell on Pacakgingsupplies.com. But it’s always great to see people giving the kinds of supplies we inventory a second life and a whole new spin. That’s just what happened at Collingswood Middle School in New Jersey when a science teacher, Hans Berg, had his students built rockets out of already-used mailing tubes.

The students took some used mailing tubes, topped them with paper cone drinking cups, added some fins made from balsa wood, and then used index cards to attach the rockets to their launchers.

Down at the schools football field, Mr. Berg and his students braved strong winds and the few droplets of rain and sent more than a dozen rockets airborne. The highest-soaring rocket reached an altitude of 400 feet before a handmade parachute, made from a used plastic bag, released and aided the rocket’s return back to Earth.

Fun and educational. Not bad for simple mailing tubes.