If you’re like most people, finding the right size of bubble mailers to ship your item can be a little tricky. Sure, you can see that a #000 bubble mailer is 4″ x 8″ and a #5 is 10 1/2″ x 16″, but sometimes it’s hard to visualize what fits in what size bubble mailer.
So we thought we would make a list of common items and the perfect bubble mailer to use to ship them.
#000- 4″ x 8″: baseball cards, coins, jewelry, medicine bottles
#00- 5 3/4″ x 9″: cell phones
#0 – 6″ x 10″: 1 DVD, 1 CD,XBOX game,
#1-7.5″ x 12″:
#2- 8.5″ x 12″: 2 DVDs, note pads
#3 – 8.5″ x 14.5″: 3 DVDs,
#4 – 9.5″ x 14.5″: paper back books, 4 DVDs, magazines
#5 – 10.5″ x 16″: 6 DVDs, big books, photo frames, hardback books
#6 – 12.5″ x 19″: 8 DVDs,
#7 – 14.5″ x 20″: 12 DVDs
Jiffy Mailers
Choosing the Correct Mailer
Width of Mailer: (W) Width of product + (T) Thickness of product + ½ inch
Length of Mailer: (L) Length of product + (T) Thickness of product + 2 inches
Example: A video cassette, packaged in a standard video mailer box 7 ½ inches x 4 inches x 1 inch (L x W x T)
To Determine Width of Mailer:
| Width of product (Inches) | 4 |
| Thickness of product (Inches) | 1 |
| + ½ Inch | + ½ |
| Minimum width of Mailer | 5 ½ |
To Determine Length of Mailer:
| Length of product (inches) | 7 ½ |
| Thickness of product (inches) | 1 |
| + 2 inches | 2 |
| Minimum | 10 ½ |
TuffGard Extreme Mailer
Width of Mailer: (W) Width of product + (T) Thickness of product + 1 inch
Length of Mailer: (L) Length of product + (T) Thickness of product + 2 ½ inches
Examples: Two video game cartridges 6 ½ x 6 inches x 1 inch (L x W x T)
To Determine Width of Mailer:
| Width of Product (inches) | 6 |
| Thickness of product (inches) | 1 |
| + 1 inch | +1 |
| Minimum width of mailer (inches) | 8 |
To Determine Length of Mailer
| Length of product (inches) | 9 |
| Thickness of product (inches) | 1 |
| + 2 ½ inches | +2 ½ |
| Minimum length of mailer (inches) | 12 ½ |
Jiffy Rigi Bag Mailers Example of item less than ¼ inch thick
Width of Mailer: (W) Width of Product + 1 inch
Length of Mailer: (L) Length of product + 1 inch
Example: Photographs 8 inchers x 10 inches x ¼ inch (L x W x T)
To Determine Width of Mailer:
| Width of product | 8 |
| + 1 inch | +1 |
| Minimum width of mailer (inches) | 9 |
To Determine Length of Mailer
| Length of product (inches) | 10 |
| + 1 inch | +1 |
| Minimum length of mailer (inches) | 11 |
Jiffy Rigi Bag Mailers Example of item between ¼ inch and ½ thick
Width of Mailer: (W) Width of product + 3 inches
Length of Mailer: (L) Length of product + 3 inches
Example: book 9 inches x 12 inches x 1 inch (L x W x T)
To Determine Width of Mailer:
| Width of Product (inches) | 9 |
| + 3 inches | + 3 |
| Minimum width of mailer (inches) | 12 |
