How to Ship Products with Book Wraps - The Best Packaging for Ecommerce

April 30 2025, by Jo Hilton
2 min reading time

A book wrap mailer is an efficient self-sealing postal wrap designed specifically for ecommerce shipments. Also known as a postal wrap or book wraps, they are a flat corrugated cardboard postal mailer that features integrated retention flaps and a peel and seal strip at one end.

How do you use a Book Wrap?

Book wraps are simple to use, and very efficient.

a picture of 5 different sizes of postal wraps with plastic free frustration free opening and peel and seal strips

Book wraps come in a range of sizes

Lay the wrap flat side down, with the retention flaps face up.
Open the retention flaps and place the item in between the flaps.
Wrap the body of the book wrap around the item you intend to ship, ensuring it's a snug fit so that the item inside is held firmly in place.
Peel off the release paper from the sealing strip and apply pressure along the length of the glue strip to ensure a good seal when closing the wrap.

Amazon use Book Wraps

If you've ever ordered a small product off of Amazon, chances are you've already had something delivered to you in a book wrap mailer (also known as corrugated postal wraps). Amazon love using book wraps because they are so efficient:

At only 2 ply thick, book wraps take up minimal storage and are easy to palletise.
They're versatile, you can pack multiple loose items into one book wrap thanks to their variable height.
They're rigid, and can be sized to fit through majority of UK letterboxes.
They feature overhanging on each end, and offer great damage protection.
Book wraps are super fast to pack.

For shipping books, games, boxed retail & more

If they're good enough for the world's largest internet retailer, they should definitely be on your list of possible packaging options for your ecommerce business.

Book wraps are great for shipping a whole range of products, including the below:

Books of all shapes and sizes
Media such as Video Games, CDs, DVDs
Small to medium picture frames
Small boxes retail items
Phone and tablet cases

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book wraps are perfect for shipping tiles, this image shows two porcelain tiles sitting on top of an opened book wrap, next to a stack of sealed book wraps.