C5 Self Seal Envelope Box of Five Hundred

self seal rather than gum, which matters when somebody is doing two hundred of them

Office equipment is sold on headline numbers that almost nobody can use. A printer quoted at 40 pages a minute is quoting a single sided black page from a warm machine, and the cost that matters is pence per page over five years rather than the price on the box. Every listing here states the real running cost, the monthly duty cycle the machine is actually built for, what the consumables cost and how long they last. Where a cheaper machine would do the job we say so, because the money in this trade is in the consumables and we would rather you knew that from us than worked it out in year two.

Specification

• Use: post rooms, mailings and everyday correspondence
• Specification: the everyday specification, which covers most offices and is what we would put on a quote unless you told us otherwise
• Capacity: quantity in the title, with a box and a pallet price both published
• Consumables: this is the consumable
• Connectivity: not applicable
• Running cost: priced per envelope and per thousand, because per thousand is how a mailroom budgets
• Sustainability: FSC certified paper and the padded envelopes are paper padded rather than bubble lined, so they go in a paper recycling stream. We state the actual certification rather than the word sustainable. For paper that means FSC or PEFC with the chain of custody number on the wrapper. For recycled content it means the percentage. Anything described only as eco friendly is described that way because there is nothing to certify.
• Delivery: next working day on stocked lines
• Weight: approximately 4.80 kilograms
• Warranty: one year return to base
• Templates: supplied as a download for every label sheet
• Paper padded: recyclable in a paper stream, unlike bubble lined
• Trade: Trade account customers get thirty day terms on approval, a published price file, next day delivery on stocked lines and a named account manager rather than a queue. Ask for it, because we do not upsell it.

What arrives

• the envelopes or labels as described
• a template file for the label sheets by download
• a reorder card

Setting it up

Download the template file from the product page before you start a label run, because setting up a label sheet by measuring it is an afternoon nobody needs to spend.

Which one to buy

On envelopes the only two decisions are the window position and self seal against gum. Get the window position wrong and every letter needs folding twice, so check it against your letter template before you order a thousand. Self seal costs slightly more and is worth it the first time somebody has to do a mailing by hand.