Let's take a look at how your products are packaged and what happens to international packages!
- Packaging types
- Separate packages for orders
- Return labels on packages
- Declared value on international packages
Packaging types
Most of our orders are poly-bagged. You can check the packaging type in our product catalog:
Separate packages for orders
Each order is shipped as submitted, and we cannot consolidate multiple orders into a single shipment.
If you are ordering products from the same vendor and submitting them under a single order number, they are likely to be shipped together.
However, please keep in mind that even items from the same order may not be sent together. This can happen as we work with multiple manufacturing facilities, and not all items are produced in the same place. Items that arrive in numerous packages should all be delivered in the same 2-3 day window.
- We recommend that you make it clear on your website that orders may not be delivered together, as they may come from different print locations.
Return label on packages
If your business is located in the US, the address you entered under your general settings is automatically used as a return address for the following products:
- Black Mugs*
- Business Cards
- Die Cut Stickers
- Flat Cards
- Folded Cards
- Hoodies (adult and youth sizes)*
- Long Sleeve Shirts*
- Metal Magnets*
- Mugs*
- Onesies*
- Pin-back Buttons
- Posters*
- Sweatshirts*
- Tank Tops*
- T-shirts (adult, youth, and toddler sizes)*
* This doesn't apply to all the SKUs from the products
If the product or SKU you offer in your store is not on this list or your business is not located in the US, the vendor's address will be used.
All packages that use the vendor's return address are grey-labeled. The return label will use "Print Lab" or "Print Shop" as the business name.
Declared value on international packages
Orders fulfilled through Gooten and shipped to an international destination can have one of two declared values:
- The production cost of the product (which is typically the lowest cost and doesn't correspond with the price you charged your customer)
- The average retail cost of the product (which is the price we generally tend to use when declaring customs value).
The declared cost depends on the jurisdiction the package is being shipped to, as each country has its own rules for this.
We support shipping to over 170 countries and 140 products, and we rely on our vendors and shipping agents to declare the value in accordance with the rules of the destination country. That said, Gooten has little to no control over the value declared on the package, as our vendor network and shipping agents handle that. Unfortunately, we can't accommodate requests to declare a specific value on packages.