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How You Will Benefit
This course focuses on what packages encounter in small parcel shipping (UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc) and how to package for damage-free shipments. Small parcel handling systems are much different and often more rugged than those used for LTL truck shipments. If not packaged correctly, your products may encounter significant damage. This course provides information that will assist in improving the performance of your packaged products in direct-to-customer shipping.

Free ASTM Membership
Attend this course and receive a FREE 1-year membership to ASTM International and Committee D10 on Packaging. (Applies to new members only and may not be used to renew existing memberships)

Attention: Professional Engineers
If your state has a continuing education requirement for license renewal, ASTM training courses and ASTM membership can help you meet that requirement.

Special Features
The course includes: a five hour lecture based on the Guide to Packaging for Small Parcel Shipments developed by the Transport Packaging Committee of the Institute of Packaging Professionals; and a tour of a small parcel carrier's sorting terminal where participants will witness the variety of hazards small parcels encounter while moving through sorting operations.

Learn About

• What happens to packages during sorting operations at small parcel carrier hubs
• Hazards that packages encounter in ground and air transport
• Minimum requirements for packaging to protect your products
• Packaging materials that perform well in small parcel shipping
• How to test packages to assure adequate protection

Who Should Attend

• Companies just starting direct-to-consumer shippng
• Any company experiencing excessive damage in samll parcel shipments
• Pack & ship stores
• E-tailers
• Packaging engineers & designers
• Sales personnel
• Shipping supervisors
• Packers

Course Outline
What Happens to your Package in the Small Parcel Carrier Systems

• How small parcels are classified for handling & sorting
• Details on handling, sorting, & shipping hazards
• Sources for carrier requirements and restrictions

General Design Recommendations (by package type):

• Package types defined

Shipping Container Recommendations:

• Types of loads defined-Corrugated fiberboard boxes
• Other containers including: bags, bundles, wraps, envelopes, tubes, cans, pails, drums, wood boxes, etc.

Interior Protective Packaging

Materials and forms available
• Their function as interior packaging
• Videos showing proper application

Testing in the Lab prior to Shipping

• Test methods to simulate hazards in distribution
• Videos of recommended testing procedures

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General recommendations

References and Resources

• Published articles, books, standards, testing labs, consultants All registrants receive a copy of the Guide to Packaging for Small Parcel Shipments
  
  

  Fee Includes
  

  Guide to Packaging for Small Parcel Shipments
  • Course Notes
  • Certificate of Attendance and 0.7 CEUs
  • Refreshments Break
  
  
  

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