Topa verpakking 'clever' packing products

Topa verpakking is an industrial packaging company in the Netherlands that has the single best book mailing box I've ever seen - every book company should use these.  Instead of a fixed size box filled with packing materials, the books are stacked on each other and then the cardboard packaging is wrapped around - you adjust it dynamically to be as big or small as needed - and then you tape it up.  (If you're in a position to order these dynamic boxes for your own office, their "T-wikkel no." is 70790.)

My books from Dutch Episode Publishers (including Who's Afraid of Niketown) arrived in absolutely beautiful condition without any wasted packaging.  (If anything, the packaging was too secure - getting it open was something of a feat!)

This dynamic packaging means no peanuts or plastic bladders or even crumpled paper were necessary, and neither was an oversized shipping box, so the shippers could carry more goods in the same space.  I hope to see more companies use this easy and clever packing system.

[Gabrielle Taylor]