Avery Perforated Mailing Seals, Clear, 480 per Pack (05248)

by Avery

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.5 x 0.5 inches ; 3.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 20 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AN1L8W
• Item model number: 05248
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,675 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #8 in Office Products > Office Supplies > Labels, Indexes & Stamps > Labels & Stickers > All-Purpose Labels
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 14, 2005

Product Description

Seal it, send it and smile. Flyers, newsletters, brochures and more stay securely fastened in the mail with these Print or Write Mailing Seals. Affix the seals to the edge of the pages, and the permanent adhesive keeps mailings from unfolding while in transit. The convenient perforated line helps you align and fold the seal precisely and allows your recipients to pop it open quickly. Customize with free templates available at avery.com. Sealing is the smart way to ensure safe mailing, so you can smile without worry.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Seals Well but Use Two per Item, October 24, 2007

By 

N. Lim (Santa Clara, CA USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

I publish a newsletter with a circulation of 700+ and use these seals for every issue. They are designed so that you can tear part of the wax paper backing off, so some of the mailing seals stick out over the edge of the remaining wax paper. This makes it very easy to grab and peel off the mailing seal. They stick well to the newsletter. The perforation makes it easy to break the newsletter open at the receiving end. To save money, we only use one seal to seal a 12-page newsletter (folded over once). I recommend using two seals, because the postal service sometimes can get kind of rough with them.

3.0 out of 5 stars Very good, January 27, 2012

By 

Ana - See all my reviews

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Avery Perforated Mailing Seals, Clear, 480 per Pack (05248) (Office Product)

This product is excatly as they advertised, is nice and perfect size to place at the edges of an envelope or cd box.

4.0 out of 5 stars You can fly with these but be careful..., October 22, 2011

By 

seaner49 - See all my reviews

This review is from: Avery Perforated Mailing Seals, Clear, 480 per Pack (05248) (Office Product)

I publish an annual catalog as a brochure that is 4 letter side pages, stapled, folded and sealed. This year I ran out of the seals I had been using, 3/4" clear perforated ones that were stuck on a letter size page. They needed to be scraped off the page and stuck on and it was a pain to bend the sheet so my fingernail could scrape the next one off. The new seals by Avery are designed so you tear off the backing and can pull them off easily with half the seal exposed. Just finished my run of 1200 catalogs so I have had a lot of time to think about this product!
These seals are 1 inch in diameter with a dotted line perforation down the middle. You bend the seal over at the perforation to close the item but the perf allows it to snap open fairly easily when received by the customer. The set up of the Avery labels is 5 down and 3 across. You put your fingers at a designated spot on the seals card and pull apart, leaving half of the seal exposed so it can be put on your finger and transferred to the booklet. Since I do this a lot I can put one on each finger and do 4 booklets in 2 seconds each and am then ready to do the next batch. The problem is that the 5X3 format always leaves at least one seal exposed and you have to set down the card upside down or the exposed seal with stick to the table or counter. Another issue is tearing off the backing requires a very specific motion to do it correctly. Otherwise one or more of the seals tears off with the backing and you have to put both sides upside down to avoid sticking to the counter! A couple of times my tearing motion left some paper on the back of the seal which made it hard to stick to the brochure. As I got more experience I was doing it right nearly all the time but had some waste along the way.
Speaking of which, the backing is about 95% of the total package and I felt like I was making a lot of trash and only using a tiny part of the product. My footprint wasn't really too green with these seals.
On the whole, I like these seals and will continue to use them because they are so fast and save time. I wish they would change to setup to 4X4 to solve the problem of open seals laying on the counter. They also cost more than other seals but the time saving is worth it.