Price guide · Ecommerce Shipping
Shipping Tube: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $1.45 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.22 at volume, on a typical 30-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $1.45 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.95 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.58 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.42 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.32 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.22 |
What moves the price
For shipping tube, the drivers are diameter, length, wall thickness, burst strength, waxing, custom print, compression strength, corner profile — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Price moves most with diameter/length, wall thickness, and whether the tube is spiral-wound kraft or heavy-wall; branded printing and caps push the price up materially. The strongest real-world sourcing routes are US wholesale distributors for smaller bulk buys and custom tube manufacturers/importers for 5,000+ units, where quoted FOB pricing and case-pack pricing start to approach the lower end of the band. Published wholesale examples show much higher per-unit pricing at small carton quantities, while supplier blog guidance and manufacturer listings place custom printed spiral-wound tubes around the mid-range at 5,000 units and FOB prices near $0.12-$0.45 for high-volume import/custom runs.
Paying more than the median?
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