CS Packaging Blog

Custom-Printed Packaging: Looking for Pros and Cons?

When it comes to selecting the packaging you will use to ship your products, you certainly have a lot of options. One of those options is electing to have custom-printed packaging made with your company’s branding. There are many reasons why someone might choose to do this, as well as many reasons why they might prefer not to. Here are our professional opinions on some of the pros and co...

E-Commerce Packaging: Retention & Suspension vs. Air Cushion

Suspension packaging and air cushion packaging are both modern alternatives to packing peanuts and other messy materials in the shipping process, and have become quite popular in the e-Commerce world. And if you need protective packaging for your shipping needs, you may be wondering which of these two options is superior. In fact, you may be wondering if either of them are superior, and ...

What Is Sustainable Packaging?

Walk down any aisle of your local supermarket or favorite department store, you’ll see a number of packages in all different shapes and sizes. The same can be said for distribution centers for the shipping industry. While the products themselves may differ drastically, most of the product's packaging share a common theme: protection and sustainability. From leading tech manufacturers tha...

Retention & Suspension Packaging: 4 Benefits of Protective Packaging

If you’re unfamiliar with retention and suspension packaging and the increasingly important role it plays in e-commerce packaging, allow us to explain. Let’s say you ordered an expensive electronic product online, like a laptop. You’re excited for it to arrive at your home, and you may have even thought about the perceived risk that you took by ordering it online rather than making a pur...

Category: Shipping

6 Optimization Tips on Shipping for Small Businesses

There’s nothing quite like running your own small business, though the process can be tedious. Our goal is to reduce the stress in your shipping operations. Small Business Shipping Tips 1. Proactive Communication: Notifications, notifications, notifications! Provide automatic e-mail or text messages that let your customers know a product has shipped, or if there has been any sort of dela...