Customer Reviews for Staples - Laser/Inkjet Shipping Labels, 8 1/2" x 11", 1 Label/Sheet, 100 Sheets/Box - White
Customer Rating
4
Nice but with one major flaw
on April 18, 2014
Posted by: Paula K.
These are nice labels don't get me wrong. They work well in the printer run smoothly stay pretty well stuck on packages and the price is nice a good $2 cheaper than the brand name competitor. The problem? As one other reviewer noted they are not that easy to separate from their backing. In fact the first time I used them I noted that I could not even FIND the "crack" line and was trying to peel from a corner. I finally found the crack cut after peeling off half the page. And therein lies the problem. Many of us use these to print mailing labels off of PayPal and the USPS site. You can print 2 labels to a full sheet which is great. However these labels have only 1 crack cut on them. This means I have to laboriously pull the backing away from the sheet make cut with scissors halfway into the backing paper smooth it down to seal it up again and only then can I insert it into the printer to print my 2 labels per page. Please talk to your manufacturer about adding a second crack to the backing sheet...at the very least. And please let us know in the item description that this has been done. Otherwise next time I need to replenish I'm paying the $2 extra -- or buying elsewhere -- to save myself a lot of time and effort.
These labels are definitely a good value for the way that I use them - mailing and shipping. However unless I plan ahead carefully they are tricky to peel when using a 1/2 sheet at a time. A diagonal cut as used in a competitors's full-sheet label is more versatile and easy to peel from the backing but more pricey so Staples has my business for the value not ease of use.