If your business involves shipping wine or gin bottles, it is imperative to use secure packaging. Prioritising proper packaging is essential to protect your products and ensure safe delivery and can prevent costly damages and improve customer satisfaction.

One of the main refunds for e-commerce businesses is due to product breakage. Below are four essential tips for the safe delivery of your product, such as wine and gin bottles from important points of protection, sustainability, and innovation solutions such as air column bags.

#1 - Use protective bottle wraps or sir column bags

It's important to protect the bottle during shipping. One of the easy ways to package bottles during shipping is to use air column bags with individual chambers surrounding the bottle. Air column packaging also offers shock absorption and impact resistance. Compared with traditional foam or bubble wrap, air column bags can reduce your packing time and be reusable for your customers, making them an eco-friendly option. With 360-degree protection, an air column bag can protect the bottle from all external forces from all angles. Also, the air column bag is only to be inflated on demand, saving on warehouse storage cost

#2 - Choose Double-Walled Boxes for shipping

Another easily overlooked detail is the thickness and strength of your box play a crucial role in ensuring the safe delivery of your product. At Packpal, we strongly recommend using a double-walled box, which can provide an additional layer of protection and guidance against external forces. Using high-quality, sturdy boxes also provides a good first impression, when a customer receives your product. In particular, during long-distance or international deliveries, using air column bags together with double-walled boxes is the perfect combination for maximum protection for your bottles.

#3 - Have Individual Compartments for Each Bottle

During the transport, often the bottles would collide with each other. Using a cardboard divider or separator can be a good idea to avoid direct contact and friction. Wine shipping kits that will come with pre-made dividers, making it easy to pack multiple bottle securely in one box. If your business uses air column packaging, you won't need to use compartments in the box, as each bottle is securely packaged in its air column bag with cushioning support. 

#4 - Seal With A Correct Label

We would also recommend ensuring seal each box using reinforce tapes before transportation. Using "fragile" tape or a label along with a "this side up" instruction provides handler with clear guidance to care for the package correctly, reducing the likelihood of rough handling. Additionally, using air column bags for transporting wine or gin bottles will offer excellent protection against any external force.

Final thoughts:

It’s all business goal to have repeat customers to come back buy from us again and again. By implementing these four simple tips using air column bags, double-walled boxes, and proper labelling and sealing to pack wine and gin bottles, you can ensure your packages arrive safely and intact, and safeguard your packages.

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