Vacuum Packaging. Anyone using it?

[clarry100]

Our items are inexpensive and soft and "squishy" so we have been thinking that this might be an easy way to make sure they will always fit inside the thickness requirements for AP. Sometimes if not compressed they kind of push the 20mm thickness limits for large letter packages. So far we have been pinged on a couple and have had to wear the fee.

Anyone have any experience using these cheaper (under $100) kitchen food sealers?

Are the bags very expensive?

Any thoughts or advice on these machines?

[*crikey*mate*]

sooo many openings LOL

[digital*ghost]

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@my*mum wrote:

sooo many openings 

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This is where you need your quick-straw skills (suck fast, suck to deflate, seal without looking back).

[*crikey*mate*]

eBay Packaging Department

[*crikey*mate*]

or for those times when you have heaps of orders to pack

[zigzagdot]

Soo many openings?  No problem if you can multitask.....

[zigzagdot]

Someone should write a User Guide on How to Suck Your Parcels to Size

[digital*ghost]

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@zigzagdot wrote:

 How to Suck Your Parcels to Size

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I can only imagine the kind of google searches that would show up in, ROFL.

[*crikey*mate*]

I think the ancient Indians already did that

[lane-ends]

I use zip lock, flatten under a phone book. Fold a strip of aluminium over end and iron to form heat seal, not to hot that you melt zip lock. Reduces tendency of zip locks to leak and inflate in the post. For packaging I slip this into a manila folder with edges taped over to form the "envelope" as added stiffness.

[phorum_junkie*]

How did I guess you would have fun with that one LOL

Suckers of the world unite