A rubber band is a rubber band? Many tend to break while trying to secure them to whatever you need to hold together. These bands can be reused. I have used them to hold small items like business cards together and larger items like securing the lid to a mediumn size box. And they won't break when you twist them to secure a stack of postcards business cards etc in both horizontal and vertical direction.
The bag of rubber bands had a horrible smell and I had to throw them out. I would have returned them but we had bought them for use by my daughter at college and we were out of state with no Staples store. Would not recommend.