The Many Uses for Parcel Tags
Brown manila parcel tags were originally intended to easily hang on to packages to be mailed and delivered for easy identification and marking for inspection. Today, they are indispensable design items for scrap booking and other paper craft projects. And many other innovative craft and paper artists have come up with a variety of uses for these simple, brown pieces of paper that are pre-punched at the top and attached with a few inches of string. Following, is a round-up of ideas that you can use for parcel tags.
For mailing packages and other documents, parcel tags have been useful for decades. They were either used to quickly tag where a parcel was supposed to go, or if any special indications or instructions regarding the contents of a package needed to be recognized. For example, a package with fragile, breakable contents, or one with materials that initial investigations by customs or other officials may find questionable and need to be flagged for further inspection, may be easily marked with a specially coded or colored paper hang tag.
They also make identification of your personal property simple and easy since the string attached to the card may be hung from any of your bags and other belongings. Instead of a card, they can be turned into personalized gift tags with a specially hand written dedication to the recipient of your gift. At a retail store or garage sale, they can be used to easily label items for pricing or special discounts.
Other uses have been discovered by ingenious and creative artists who saw the unlimited potential of parcel tags and used them to, write table name places, for example, or for scrap booking. The hang tags are also good for use as bookmarks or may be decorated to be turned into invitations, or birth and wedding announcements. The possibilities are really limitless with a bit of imagination and some scissors, glue, and embellishments.
Once just brown, boring, and utilitarian, parcel tags now come in an array for colors and sizes for any of your paper craft projects or mailing and flagging purposes. The most commonly used size for paper tags is 21 mm by 13 mm but they are also made in sizes up to as large as 120 mm by 60 mm. There are eight standard colors available for tags which are buff (or brown), green, red, white, yellow, and blue. However, specialty craft and stationery shops will also carry a rainbow of colors in between. You’ll never have to run out of tags because they are typically sold in packs of 75 to 100 at office supply stores.
Although they were originally design for use in the mail room, paper tags have so many other uses. No longer just for labeling and marking packages for delivery, they can now also let you unleash your creative side as a customizable embellishment in uncountable craft and art projects. As a design element, an identification tag, or as they were intended, a package label, parcel tags are indeed multi-functional tools to have.
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