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Monday, January 25 is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

By Paperstone on January 21, 2016 in Fun, Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
Monday, January 25 is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day!

There’s something incredibly distracting about bubble wrap – it seems to shout out “Pop me!” when you’re trying to pack something in it! Did you know that Monday, January 25 is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, when you can openly admit your love of bubble wrap and pop your bubbles proudly? If you visit the Bubble […]

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Sir Rowland Hill, Inventor of the Postage Stamp

By Paperstone on September 6, 2015 in Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
Sir Rowland Hill, Inventor of the Postage Stamp

Despite the popularity of e-mail and social media, snail mail still has its place for those personal communications like birthday and Valentine cards. We take it for granted that we can pop a stamp on an envelope and post it, paying the same price wherever it goes in the UK. So let’s spare a thought […]

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6 Steps To Guarantee A Successful Office Move

By Paperstone on May 6, 2015 in Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
6 Steps To Guarantee A Successful Office Move

  Office moves can be stressful and depending on the size of your organisation can seriously affect your ability to carry out normal duties. Minimising downtime and disruption is a must, so we’ve put together a list of things to keep in mind when planning a successful office move.   1. Be Prepared By Creating […]

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13 Tips For Shipping Fragile Items

By Paperstone on April 28, 2015 in Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
13 Tips For Shipping Fragile Items

  Unfortunately, we’ve all been there, that item we ordered online that arrives in more pieces than we’d have liked. Perhaps you want to sell something on eBay and don’t know where to start. Shipping fragile items is actually pretty simple if you follow these 13 steps. 1. Choose Your Courier Carefully Use a reliable parcel courier, or postal […]

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“He’s a Total Moron”

By Paperstone on March 11, 2013 in Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
“He’s a Total Moron”

A New York man faked his own kidnapping because he wanted to escape the anger of his girlfriend after going missing for two weeks. Rahmell Pettway, 36, admitted to police that he had staged the kidnapping to order to explain his absence to his girlfriend after spending two weeks away from his Brooklyn home. He […]

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Pop Culture

By Paperstone on January 29, 2013 in Fun, Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
Pop Culture

Yesterday was Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, a day inaugurated in 2001 to celebrate the strangely additctive protective wrap. To mark the day, 366 students at a New Jersey high school simultaneously popped bubble wrap, in the process setting the record for the most people popping bubble wrap at one time. Students of Hawthorne High School […]

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Would You Belieb it!

By Paperstone on November 7, 2012 in Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
Would You Belieb it!

Did you know that Justin Bieber has his very own duct tape? Duck brand duct tape got together with global music merchandising company Bravado to release a special edition of the multifunctional tape featuring prints of the singer to celebrate his 2012 world tour. The design incorporates hints of purple which apparently is Bieber’s favourite […]

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Supermarket’s Idea Is Bananas

By Paperstone on September 24, 2012 in Catering, Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
Supermarket’s Idea Is Bananas

A German-owned supermarket chain has attracted scorn for selling peeled bananas on plastic trays wrapped in cling film. The company’s Facebook page suffered a torrent of abuse from customers, many of whom threatened to boycott the store. The irony is that that Billa, which has thousands of store across Europe, promotes itself as a “common […]

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Many Too Small Boxes and Maru

By Paperstone on September 15, 2012 in Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments

If you’ve been living under a rock, you may not have come across a Scottish Fold cat called Maru. Maru is a resident of Japan and a YouTube superstar who has a particular penchant for cardboard boxes. Videos of his box antics have received some 158 million hits. Maru recently starred in an advert for […]

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Duct Tape Prom Dresses

By Paperstone on July 27, 2012 in Desktop Essentials, Mailroom & Warehouse with 0 Comments
Duct Tape Prom Dresses

In the right circles, DuctBrand.com is renowned for its success in drumming up buzz around a seemingly humdrum product like duct tape. Much of this revolves around getting people to get creative with the tape, making pretty flowers, jewelry and such from “America’s favorite fix-all.” Each year, DuckBrand.com sponsors a competition to win a college […]

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