Mailing Tubes

Find shipping tubes to fit your business needs

By Jennifer Ehlenfeldt, Freelance Writer

The mailing tube is not just another office supply; or at least you shouldn't label it as one. Using good quality mailing cylinders can mean the difference between getting that next client and falling short of your goal. When you're sending documents or a product that you've spent weeks preparing, it's important to find a good quality mailing tube to deliver that product intact and in perfect condition.

Sometimes mailing tubes become your line of advertising. In those cases, it is equally important to find a well-designed, eye-catching tube that can convey your business message.

1. Select shipping tubes based on their quality and look.
2. Look for sturdy, well-made tubes to use for heavy or very important products.
3. Find colored, clear or other mailing cylinders to use as advertising tools.

Look for mailing tube options

When choosing mailing tubes, the two most obvious decisions to make are what color tubes you want and what types of end closures the tubes will have.
Try: Tubes come in many colors from the basic white to gold. Colored tubes make great marketing tools. Put your custom logo on the tube, and you've opened up a new advertising market for yourself. Once you've chosen the look of your tube, you need to pick a closure. Kraft tubes come with plastic push ends, snap seal ends or twist and pull ends.

Find tubes that will get your product there safely

If your company needs mailing tubes to send heavy items or protect important documents, extra-strength mailers or water-resistant tubes are the right choice.
Try: Order heavy-duty mailing kraft tubes that hold up to 300 pounds from Erdie. These 3 or 4-inch diameter tubes come in 24 to 36-inch lengths. If you're sending very important papers that can't get wet, use Moisture-Guard shipping tubes made of polycoated fiberboard or blueprint tubes made of PVC plastic.

Search for sound or music mailing tubes

Want to send a message with your mailing tube? Consider making it a very personal message, so personal, you record it yourself.
Try: Here's a very unique mailing tube that can bring home your message -- literally. The Sound Mailing Tubes let you record your own personal 10 second message or choose a pre-recorded sound bite. When the cap is removed, the message plays for the recipient.

Get odd shaped mailing tubes

Mailing tubes aren't always cylinder shaped. Sometimes what you really need is a triangle-shaped tube or a square container to send your product.
Try: Uline sells many shaped tubes besides the normal cylinder-shaped ones. They offer 3 and 5-inch square mailers in different lengths, and either a 3-inch or 6-inch giant triangle shaped tube.

Find clear plastic mailing tubes

When you're sending a product or information flyer you want everyone to see, a clear plastic mailing tube is the way to go.
Try: Clear mailing tubes work great for product awareness. Businesses also utilize clear tubes when putting messages on flyers inside the tube that customers can view from the outside. There are many other uses for clear plastic tubes. Use plastic mailing tubes for messages like invitations or sale notices you don't want your customers to miss.

Look for adjustable cardboard mailing tubes

Businesses that need to mail many sized items should order adjustable mailing tubes wholesale.
Try: Order Telescoping tubes in bulk and use them for different mailings of all sizes as the tubes adjust in length. For businesses, these tubes can be a cost-efficient way to order mailing tubes wholesale as you don't wind up with sizes you can't use.

Mailing tubes have other good office uses. Display products or important documents in clear tubes for easy employee access.