Packaging & Workflow Desk
Mei-Ling Tanaka
Mei-Ling owns the packing-bench side: scales, boxes and poly mailers, tape guns, and the order things sit on a table. The starting point is what the shipping platforms themselves say a new seller needs: a scale that reads ounces, the length, width and height of a box (or the length and width of a poly mailer), and labels the printer can take.
Dimensional weight is explained as a formula with a divisor you enter yourself. Carrier rates, surcharges and divisors change, so this site prints none of them and points to the carriers instead.
No test bench and no invented credentials: the desk reads maker specs, platform help pages and seller reports, and says so on every page.
Method note
Measure first, then choose the box; carrier numbers stay on the carrier's own page.
Mei-Ling’s beat
Read how the whole team reads and rates gear on our methodology page.
Worth a look
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Merch for people who pack boxes
Original designs for the packing table, made to order. No maker logos.
First run · in the works
The first designs land soon.
Tees, stickers and mugs for the packing table. See the shop or take the letter and hear first.