Making your fragile sticker work
Sellers of ceramics, glass, candles and prints mark parcels with a fragile sticker to ask couriers to take care. A branded version does the job while still looking like your shop, which matters when customers photograph their parcels.
What to write on it
- Fragile, in the largest letters the sticker allows.
- Handle with care, as a second line.
- A simple symbol, such as a glass, that reads without words.
One tip
A sticker helps, but packing protects. Pad fragile items so a parcel survives being dropped, whatever the sticker says. Choose a bright colour such as red or orange, which handlers spot before reading a word, and use the same design every time so regular couriers learn to recognise your boxes.
What you get
- Made at 3 × 3 in.
- A CMYK print PDF with bleed and crop marks, ready for any print shop.
- Stickers come in 3 × 3 in, ready to die-cut.
- Two AI designs from your words, logo and colours; preview free, $3.99 for the one you keep.
- Do fragile stickers really work?
- They can encourage careful handling, but couriers sort parcels by machine too, so packing well matters most.
- Where should a fragile sticker go?
- On the top and at least one side of the parcel, so it is visible however the box is stacked.
