Can you relate with the feeling of ordering your favourite Chanel perfume online after months of careful savings? Remember how you took an off from your work to be present to sign for it on the day of its scheduled delivery! You were even ready to take another off from work when the delivery got delayed? But, the real tragedy happened when the package was in your hands. After all, what could’ve been worse than receiving your priced purchase in a damaged condition or simply, in an abnormal state?
With a plethora of packaging material options available in market, as showcased on www.dcgpac.com, there is no reason why a delivery package cannot reach safely to its destination. Getting parcels delivered in a secured manner is no rocket science. Here’s how to avoid and manage five of the most common parcel damage horrors, one can think of.
Collapsed parcels
One of the most common damage to your parcel is it getting collapsed. Cardboard is a sturdy packaging option however, if we place something really heavy on top of it exceeding its loading capacity, it is bound to get collapsed.
So, if you want your cardboard packaging box to retain its shape, make sure you get the size of the box that exactly fits the size of your product or if there are any empty spaces or voids inside the box, make sure to fill them up with some kind of void fill. The option you choose, by and large depends upon how strong the box contents are.
Packaging material companies these days offer a large range of box sizes for you to choose the most suitable size from. Taking it a step further, these companies also give you the option to order customized corrugated boxes, delivering them anywhere in India.
If you have already chosen your box and need to fill all the voids with the appropriate packing material, these companies offer expedient materials such as packing peanuts, bubble wrap of large bubble sizes, foam lined boxes and many more. This material should be used in optimum quantity since on using too much of it, you run the risk of your box bursting in the middle of its journey.
Bursting of parcels
Exactly in the way, putting too little in your parcel can cause it to collapse, putting too much of content can cause it to burst. Whether your box may burst outwards or in an extreme case, burst downwards, in order to prevent this from happening, you can start with choosing an accurately sized box. But there is a lot more that can be done. Make sure that the box has a holding capacity of carrying the kind of weight you are planning to fill it with. In case it cannot, opt for a double-walled box or a heavy duty box of the same size. The next step is to ensure the use of a superior quality packing tape that will keep the box sealed at least till the time your parcel is in transit. Want to add another layer of protection to your box? Make use of some plastic strapping or strapping tape in order to make doubly sure that your box stays intact during transportation.
Crushed or buckled boxes
Parcels, during transit are generally placed one on top of the other, without much thought given to their holding capacities, in which case, there is high risk of the poor quality boxes getting crushed. These poor quality boxes may look exactly the same as the good quality ones and these may be available at cheaper price, but one can just not be confident about the product safety on using them. So, to avoid crushing or buckling of the boxes, make sure that you do not over-stack the box pallets and you use only the good quality boxes and heavy duty boxes, in case the need be.
Damaged content inside
There are cases when your parcel looks just okay from the outside, but the real horror begins when on opening them, broken and damaged content gets exposed to you. This usually takes place because of vibrations, shaking and bumping of the package during its journey. Packaging protectively and carefully is the only solution to avoid this kind of damage and this is specially important in case of electronic equipment that can easily get damaged with electrostatic discharge. Packaging industry experts from various packing material suppliers can guide and help you comprehensively to carefully package your box contents to prevent this kind pf a damage.
Boxes not handled carefully
Even after taking all the precautions while carefully packaging your boxes, it can all go wrong if your box packages are not safely handled by the courier company staff or anyone the box meets on its journey. In this case we can simply stick to the basics and apply packing tapes and a variety of labels having printed messages such as ‘Fragile’, ‘Handle With Care’ and ‘This side up’.
