Anyone know what those bags filled with air used in the mail to protect the items being sent are called or where to buy them?
Bags filled with air used in the mail.
Trance N Dance on 20/06/2011 - 21:53
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Get the samples from http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/46169
Use this technique http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58ARC6OeJPo
and make your own. :-D
You don't actually buy the bags pre-filled (imagine the volumetric postage on that!), you get the machine that fills and seals the bag to your requirements.
I'm pretty sure that you need a machine that produces and seals the little pockets of air.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMvww-NkY7II always keep these when I get them in parcels, they are super handy when you are posting stuff in boxes.
damn i threw those STAPLES ones away.
Thanks for the info guys.
Damn I used up my last ones packing some things I sold… :(
Might have to get these
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/BIO-VOID-FILL-AIR-CUSHIONS-BUBBLE…
Scrunched up newspaper works as well, if not better.
Scrunched newspaper is pretty much useless in transit because it doesn't absorb shock.
The idea isn't just to fill the void, but the absorb shock (eg: of something being dropped)
Is bubble wrapping not sufficient enough to use as cushion?
depending on what you're packing, these air bags can be waaay better. Next time you get one, put it on your desk and punch it a bit. Then put some bubble wrap on the desk and punch that. You'll notice quite a large difference.
Bubble wrap also can't easily fill large voids in boxes - you have to use a lot, which will be expensive. It also weighs more because there's much more plastic than air.
just buy a pen from staples
u'll get a box of these thingsi bought a backup tape online once. The supplier just packed the small tape into a box that could fit a bowling ball, without any air bags or bubble wrap or anything. grr!
My last Staples delivery (the 2.5" hard drive) came like that. Zero packaging at all.
I only bought the drive for the air packet thingies :-D
i heard stories of one pen in a large box filled with these things
i got a battery, tea bags and got around 4-05 of these in a large box (A3 size, around 10cm high)
crazy
I'll raise you on that one. One of my orders had three items in it, all were packaged separately in their massive one size fits all boxes. In one of the boxes was -
http://www.staples.com.au/general-office-supplies/teaching-a…
I kid you not. It could easily have been packaged in with the crepe paper in one of the other two boxes. I initially thought they'd sent me an empty box because nothing moved when I shook it because the stickers had slid behind one of the cardboard flaps. More money than sense at Staples it seems.
double post oops
Woolies and coles sells these bags of air for about $1 a pack.
Who knows, maybe if you're lucky you might even find some chips in them =P
if in WA I have a few. Destroyed about 2 cubic m of them after moving house and basically shipping all my cutlery and pots etc from the uk.
Bags filled with air…
Every time I read the title of this thread, I think of the fat ugly women who work in our Accounts Department ROFL :-D
They are called fill-air
have one in front of me right now!
Other brands just search for "inflatable packaging" on google