Commercial Envelope
Commercial Envelope
An envelope is a packaging product, usually made of flat, planar material such as paper or cardboard, and designed to contain a flat object, which in a postal-service context is usually a letter, card or bills. The traditional type is made from a sheet of paper cut to one of three shapes: the rhombus (also referred to as a lozenge or diamond), the short-arm cross, and the kite. These designs ensure that in the course of envelope manufacture when the sides of the sheet are folded about a delineated central rectangular area, a rectangular-faced, usually oblong, enclosure is formed with an arrangement of four flaps on the reverse side, which, by virtue of the shapes of sheet traditionally used, is inevitably symmetrical.
In 1876 William Irwin Martin published the Stationer’s Handbook. He worked for the Samuel Raynor & Company in New York. He created the first commercial sizes of envelopes and simply numbered them from 0 through 12. It was mostly for social and business stationery purposes in those days. That’s how the No. 10 envelope got its name.
According to international postal conventions, a letter envelope must measure at least 90 × 140 mm. The length of postcards and aerograms must be at least the width times the square root of 2. These requirements help sorting letters by making it easier to line up all the envelopes with the addresses reading the same way.
The same regulations also reserve certain regions on the envelope for the address, the postage, as well as markings that can be added by sorting machines.
In some countries using postcodes, common envelopes are preprinted with lines and boxes that help write those postcodes in a consistent way in a consistent position.
Padded envelopes where introduced to give extra protection to more dilicate items sent through the post. Jiffy padded envelopes are made from a strong high quality punture and tear resistant kraft paper and filled with re-cycled paper fibres for maximum cushioning.
About the Author:
Kevin Thomas works for Davpack, a uk packaging supplier. Their friendly staff are waiting to help you choose the right packaging for your business.
Text and content © Copyright of Davenport Paper Co. Ltd 2008
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Padded Envelopes
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