How to ship posters?

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Let’s assume you’re just starting your poster company and that you are the one who will be purchasing the supplies, packing everything, and shipping the posters yourself. And keep in mind that “poster tubes” is just another name for “mailing tubes”, “shipping tubes”, “cardboard tubes”, and “paper tubes.” Referring to a “paper tube” as a “poster tube” is just a more specific way of referring to it.

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4 Steps to Make a Paper Tube

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Have you ever seen the television show How It’s Made? If you find yourself wondering how things are put together, assembled, or used, you may find it interesting. The format is simple – take a few cameras into a manufacturing facility and capture each step of the process. By showing viewers the manufacturing process, questions are answered before they need to be asked.

The same is true with spiral paper tubes. The more our customers understand about how spiral paper tubes are made, the better service we can provide. Read more…

Litho Display Poles – Temporary Floor Displays

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Some of the most common floor displays are temporary floor displays. Temporary floor displays are seasonal and used to promote products for a short period of time. To help keep costs down on temporary floor displays, they are often made with cardboard or paper.

Floor displays are often seen in the lobbies and halls of movie theaters as well as retail stores. The type of floor displays we specialize in utilize what is referred to as a litho display pole. Litho display poles are cardboard tubes with a .125 inch wall thickness – this is the standard wall thickness for paper tubes used as display poles.

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Los Angeles Tape Cores and Label Cores

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We’re offering a variety of tape and label cores online!

After receiving requests from customers who needed cores faster, we launched our store in October 2013 to do just that. A year and a half later, we’re offering ninety different length options. All cores available through our online store have a 3 inch inside diameter and a .125 inch wall thickness — the most common inside diameter and wall thickness for tape and label cores.

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Two Ways to Order Paper Cores

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Today we want to show you the two different ways to order tape cores and label cores.

1) Emailing Purchase Orders

2) Online Ordering

 

1) EMAILING PURCHASE ORDERS

We have been making spiral paper cores in Los Angeles since 1949, which obviously pre-dates the internet. Many of our long-term customers continue to purchase their paper cores by emailing a Purchase Order to orders@spiralpaper.com. Read more…

Happy New Year! It’s a Great Year for Packaging!

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Best wishes from all of us at Spiral Paper Tube and Core!

If you are already familiar with who we are and what we make, we are excited you will be joining us for yet another year! If you are newer to the packaging industry, or to our packaging products, welcome! We are happy to have you!

Our goal is to provide you with information about each product, answer any questions, and make a paper tube or edge protector that best serves your needs.

Since 1949, we have been manufacturing paper tubes. In 2004, we started making edge protectors (also known as corner protectors). We service international clients, ship our products throughout the country, focus on Orange County, Ventura County, and Riverside County businesses, and offer local deliveries to local customers. In 2013, we started offering 3″ ID x .125″ thick tape cores and label cores online – same day shipping is available on orders received before 11 AM Pacific.

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Los Angeles Fulfillment Services – Spiral Paper Tube & Core

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Spiral Paper Tube & Core helps customers by offering ways to decrease logistic costs and increase efficiency.

When a customer orders Poster Tubes, Mailing Tubes, Fiber Cans, or Telescope Tubes, they also have the option of utilizing our in-house fulfillment services. For example, if a customer is selling posters on Amazon.com, Ebay.com, etc., a large quantity of posters need to be rolled, inserted into a poster tube, and shipped throughout the world.

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Ordering Shipping and Packaging Supplies

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The information highway is responsible for a vast majority of communications and sales throughout the world. In the United States, online sales are estimated to account for roughly 60% of all retail sales and will equate to approximately $370 billion. These figures do not include web-influenced sales such as research, browsing, and mapping retail products and stores.

This figure also does not include retail sales of items not purchases or rarely purchased on line such as gasoline or restaurant meals. Retail manufacturers will be more successful in online shopping with products that do not have a need to be touched or seen first hand.

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Los Angeles Cardboard Tubes and Edge Protectors

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Los Angeles may be known as a tropical vacation spot where many visitors from all over the world come to experience fabulous weather, exquisite food, and a variety of entertainment options…and who can forget Disneyland? Tourists are not often acutely aware of the booming industry that equates to roughly 500,000 employees in the manufacturing industry. Los Angeles has grown to be a leading entrepreneurial entity that supports creativity, new ideas, new products, and boasts the largest manufacturing and retail markets in the West.

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Custom Paper Canisters – Style 4

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I am drawn to aesthetic packaging.

I appreciate when packaging is multi-functional, good for the environment, well made, and economically priced. I like a unique style that brings classic fun, and eclectic appeal, that effortlessly blends with my neat and organized lifestyle. I am a product person and packaging is half the selling point for me.

If I don’t like the way it looks on the shelf, I probably might not like the way it works in my home. Consumers want to know they are not only getting a great product, they want it to look great too!

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