Avery ACT Shipping Labels White 150.4 x 100mm Roll 550

ACT Shipping Labels

Pre-printed ACT. White. 150.4 x 100mm. 550 labels on the roll. Permanent adhesive, 140gsm paper. Avery code 932608.

The label is printed ACT, not the Australian Capital Territory. Avery titles it ACT and prints the abbreviation, and that is the whole of what appears on the label. Our own listing described it as carrying the state name in full, which is the one thing a buyer is choosing on.

The colour is there to be seen, and that is all Avery says about it. Their statement about colour on this page is that the labels are colour coded in a variety of plain and fluoro colours for maximum visibility. There is no colour code: no colour stands for urgency, a category, a status or a state. The range itself settles it - fluoro yellow carries eleven different messages, and the Fragile label is sold in yellow and in red with the same text on both. Our own copy had built a system on top of that, and the system was ours.

What Avery says it does. Available in a bright white rectangular shape of 100 x 150.4mm with 550 labels per roll. These pre-printed 'ACT' state labels help to reduce the risk of lost products by visibly marking which packages need to be sent to which state.

Their published feature bullets for this code, in full: These pre-printed State labels provide a clear visual ideal for identification on cartons and pallets, Permanent adhesive ensures labels adhere to boxes and parcels and Durable dispenser box which easily dispenses labels.

Avery adds that the permanent adhesive gives extra protection from tampering, especially when used as a security seal. That is their claim about the adhesive, and it is as far as they take it.

Avery names no standard and no requirement. Not an Australian Standard, not an ISO number, not a dangerous goods code, not a carrier or courier rule, not a transport regulation, not a quality management standard. What Avery publishes is a printed paper label with a permanent adhesive. If a carrier, an auditor or a regulator requires a particular marking, check that requirement directly rather than assuming this label meets it.

Avery gives the size as 150.4 x 100mm in the specification table and the two figures the other way round in the description on the same page. They never label which is which, so neither do we; it is one rectangle either way.

A correction. Our own listing for this code claimed that there is an Avery state colour coding system, that white is the designated colour for the Australian Capital Territory and that the label is printed with the state name in full. Avery publishes none of it, so it has been removed.

Avery publishes no core size for the roll, no standard and no carrier requirement and no reason for the colour on any one code. Where they are silent, so are we.

It sits in our Avery labels range, alongside our label supplies category, Avery and the rest of the catalogue.