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Understanding Recycling Symbols

Understanding Recycling Symbols

As sustainability becomes a priority, understanding recycling symbols is crucial for both businesses and consumers. These symbols help identify how different packaging materials, including envelopes, should be disposed of responsibly.

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How to make an envelope – A step by step guide

How to make an envelope – A step by step guide

Creating your own envelopes is a simple and fun DIY project! Whether you need an envelope for a greeting card, invitation, or a unique touch for a handmade note, this guide will show you how to make an envelope using materials like white paper, coloured card, scissors, double sided tape or glue, card blanks, and a ruler.

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Choosing the Right Packaging for Vinted Sellers

Choosing the Right Packaging for Vinted Sellers

If you’re a Vinted seller, choosing the right packaging can make a significant difference in protecting your items, impressing your buyers, and streamlining your shipping process. From durable mailers to eco-friendly options, using high quality materials ensures your items arrive safely
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Christmas opening times

Christmas opening times

It's that time of year again where we shut down for Christmas! Our last day for dispatch is Monday 23rd December and we will re-open on Thursday 2nd January 2025. Orders can still be placed on our websites during the Christmas period as normal
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A Comprehensive Guide to FSC Grades in Sustainable Packaging

A Comprehensive Guide to FSC Grades in Sustainable Packaging

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification is an essential benchmark for sustainable forestry practices. It ensures that the materials used in products are sourced responsibly while protecting biodiversity, ecosystems, and communities.
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What is GSM?

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What is GSM?
What does GSM mean?

You may have noticed that envelopes are supplied in a range of different GSM. This is also true of paper and card, but what does this mean?

What does GSM mean?

GSM stands for 'Grams Per Square Meter' and means the amount of grams a single sheet of paper weighs measuring 1m x 1m.

Paper that is used to manufacture envelopes generally start at thin 70gsm all the way to up to a much thicker 180gsm paper. A lower gsm paper, such as 30 - 60gsm, would be used for something like newspapers but is much too thin to enclose anything without it becoming torn. Higher GSM envelopes such as 130gsm are much thicker and higher quality which makes them popular for use as wedding invitations. You can see the table below which shows the GSM and common uses.

GSMCommon Uses
70 - 90gsmBusiness Envelopes to enclose letters, thin documents. These envelopes are generally cheap.
90gsm - 100gsmAverage envelope that is used to send through the postal system.
110 - 130gsmPremium envelope that are popular as use for wedding invitations or greetings cards envelopes.
140 - 180gsmThick envelopes that are very sturdy and protect it's contents.

An envelope is the first thing that you see and can help improve deliverability, increase open rates, promote offers and communicate a positive brand image. Simply by using a coloured envelope over a plain white envelope can increase open rates by nine times! You can communicate a positive brand image further by having your brand printed onto an envelope of your choice!