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Shipping label generator

Make a 4 × 6 inch shipping label with the addresses, weight and your own reference as a barcode, for parcels you hand over yourself. It is not a carrier label with postage.

Template label for your own internal use. This is not a carrier-issued label: no postage has been paid and no tracking number registered, and USPS, FedEx, UPS and DHL will not accept or scan it.

Street, city, postcode, country — plus a tax number, email or phone if the document needs one.

Street, city, postcode, country — plus a tax number, email or phone if the document needs one.

Your own order or stock number. It becomes the barcode.

Handling instructions, a delivery note, a contact number — anything that should be readable on the box.

Opens your browser’s print dialog, where Save as PDF is the destination on every desktop browser. Nothing you have typed leaves this tab.

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How to use it

  1. Fill in the sender and the delivery address.
  2. Add the weight, dimensions and your own order or stock number.
  3. Check the preview: the delivery address is large, the sender small.
  4. Press “Save as PDF” and print it on 4 × 6 label stock or plain paper.

This is not a carrier label

Template label for your own internal use. This is not a carrier-issued label: no postage has been paid and no tracking number registered, and USPS, FedEx, UPS and DHL will not accept or scan it.

Worth being blunt about, because the failure is a physical one: a label that looks official, on a box a courier then refuses. Nothing here is registered with anyone, nothing here has been paid for, and the barcode is your own reference number — not a tracking number that any carrier will recognise or scan.

What it is genuinely for

The shipments you hand over yourself. Deliveries you make locally, boxes moving between your own locations, parcels going out with postage bought separately at a counter, and consignments a courier collects under an account where the paperwork is arranged another way. In each of those the box still needs a clear address on it, and the code makes it findable in your own system.

Printing one that survives the journey

The label is 4 x 6 inches, which is the size of the thermal label stock almost everybody already owns, and it prints straight to that on a label printer. On plain paper, print it and tape it down across its whole surface, or use a document wallet. Ink runs in the rain, and a label with a smudged postcode is a parcel that comes back.

Keep the delivery address large and the sender small, which is how this one is laid out: the address that matters at a sorting bench is the one it is going to. And put the same reference number in your own records, so that the barcode is worth scanning.

Questions

Can I use this label with UPS, FedEx or the post office?

Not as a postage label. Carriers only accept labels created through their own systems, with paid postage and their tracking barcode. This one is for parcels you deliver or hand over with postage bought separately.

What is the barcode on the label?

Your own reference number, encoded so you can scan it in your own system. No carrier will recognise it as tracking.

What size is the label?

4 × 6 inches, the common thermal label size, so it prints straight onto label stock.

How do I keep a paper label readable?

Tape it down across its whole surface, or put it in a document wallet. Ink runs in the rain.

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