Oftentimes, an order will have jackets that need stuffed in house. We have the jackets sent to us, as well as any insets that the artist wants to include. These are often lyric sheets, but sometimes digital download cards are included too. The inserts go with the records inside the jackets, and then are set aside to be bagged up. We shrink wrap all of our records by hand using the bagging machine and shrink tunnel. I typically bag all of the records first and set them aside in boxes. I try to keep track of the count in each box, so no surprises arise down the line.

Here is a photo of a record in the bagging machine ready to be sealed.

And here are records that have been bagged but not yet sent through the shrink tunnel.

Once the records are all bagged, I send each box through the shrink tunnel. When they come out on the other end, I check each one to make sure there are no tears in the shrink wrap and I put them in boxes. When we box up records, we do stacks of 10 and flip them each grouping so that you can clearly see how many are in each box.