When it comes to padded envelopes and bubble mailers, one size does not fit all. In this post, we’ll cover the difference between padded and bubble envelopes, how to choose the best mailer, and the many padded envelope sizes on the market. Bonus: We’ll also touch on the history of Bubble Wrap! 🤯 Below we have a comprehensive size guide where you can search the dimensions in either mm, cm or inches to help you easily find the envelope that fits your needs. Bubble Wrap soon became the favorite way to ship. And as for the irresistible desire to pop the bubbles? There’s no quaint origin story there; bubbles were made for popping!

Sending international mail? See size and weight restrictions for sending letters and parcels to countries outside the UK. Format Versatility: the credentials of our padded envelopes makes them exceptionally versatile for use across a variety of industries

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Poly Bubble Bags Our poly bubble bags are the perfect product to compliment our metallic bubble bag range. Manufactured from 190gsm gloss polyethylene and bubble-lined for extra protection. We have a range of envelopes made in Tyvek material. This is a unique material with unsurpassable strength. These envelopes are water, burst, tear and puncture resistant which means products arrive in pristine condition. Tyvek is ultra light, only a third of the weight of equivalent paper products, which means lower postage costs. Survivor /Tyvek envelopes have a peel and seal closure which ensures the contents remain secure. Poly Padded Envelopes are made completely from polythene, making these padded mailers extremely lightweight, more burst and puncture resistant than paper alternatives, as well as fully recyclable. Jiffy Bags, or padded envelopes,feature a bubble-wrap-lined interior to provide excellent in-transit protection to a wide variety of products. We’ve created our own-brand version of Jiffy Bags, known as Bubble Lined Bags™, which are the best value padded envelopes on the market; manufactured to the best big-brand quality standards, but without the big-brand price-tag typically associated with it.

Heavy duty paper in a range of sizes, the rigid board keeps important documents safe. These envelopes are available in white or Manilla (brown). The front of the envelope has a printed message "Please Do Not Bend". We also have a large range of specialty envelopes. Within this range you can find A5 and A4 Do Not Bend envelopes, plain money envelopes, cheap padded envelopes and large window envelopes. There are so many more options available here, but these are just a select few. Continue Reading Envelope Finder The maximum dimensions of an envelope you can send with a standard first class stamp is 240mm x 165mm. Larger than this and postage rate will increase to large letter or parcel rate. See our Royal Mail Letter & Parcel Size Guide above for more info. There are countless industries and applications where padded envelopes reign supreme. These include businesses that carry out the following applications: Our handy envelope postage guide below will help you work out the postage costs for different envelope sizes. We’ve answered your ‘most asked questions’ about envelopes and postage costs below too! Letter & Parcel Size Guide for Royal Mail PostageWhatever you’re sending in the post, get unrivalled quality and value with our diverse range of padded envelopes available to buy online today. The DL envelope originated in Germany in the 1920's and was then known as DIN Lang, however these days DL is known to stand for 'Dimension Lengthwise'. A DL envelope is designed to fit an A4 piece of paper, folded into thirds. This is one of the most common envelope sizes for business letters and you will find the majority of your standard post arrives in a DL size envelope. If you are looking to get the maximum size possible within the large letter range we have a few specially sized envelopes with dimensions 249mm x 352mm - just 1mm under the height and width restrictions! It’s easy to find the right padded mailer equivalent to your Jiffy Bag sizes with our size conversion filter. If you want to swap to a better value alternative to whichever brand you’re currently buying, you can see our own-brand of padded envelopes in Arofol, Featherpost, Mail Lite, and Jiffy Bags sizes, as well as popular paper and envelope sizes. Paper Mailing Bags Paper mailing bags provide an alternative to polythene mailing bags. These bags are 100% recyclable & renewable.

When sealing a Flat Rate Envelope or Box, the container flaps must be able to close within the normal folds. A windowed envelope is an envelope with a plastic window in it. The plastic in these creates problems in paper recycling. Consumers who don\'t want to go through the trouble of ripping out the plastic window should put the envelope in a rubbish bag after use.From letters and books to cosmetics, clothes and giftware, with our diverse range of premium-quality padded envelopes, you can ship anything and everything safely through the post. Lightweight: our padded envelopes are incredibly lightweight, helping to keep postal costs down while still protecting what’s inside These have special tamper-resistant and tamper-evident features. They are used for high value products and documents as well as for evidence for legal proceedings. Mailers are available for full size documents. The Postal Service and Express mail carriers have large mailing envelopes for their express services. Others which are similar are available at office stationery at very reasonable prices.