How Bulk Hoodies Are Packed
By The Velocity Wear Team
Hoodies are folded, individually bagged, and packed into cartons sorted by size. Each carton carries a label listing the design, the sizes inside and the count. A 50-piece order is usually one or two cartons; larger runs come palletised. You can ask for a different arrangement before production starts, and that decision is worth making deliberately, because it is what determines how long your unpacking day takes.
What arrives in the box?
Individual polybags are standard. They keep the garment clean in transit, they stop a printed front rubbing against a zip in the same carton, and they are what a retail buyer expects. Cartons are packed to a weight that one person can lift, which on heavyweight fleece means fewer pieces per box than you might assume. A 450 GSM hoodie is a bulky object once bagged, and a carton of them fills up on volume long before it hits a weight limit.
Each carton is labelled on the outside with the design name, the size breakdown, the quantity and the carton number out of the total. That last part matters more than it sounds: knowing you are looking at three of four tells you immediately whether the delivery is complete without opening anything. Check the carton count against the paperwork before the driver leaves, because a missing carton is much easier to chase on the day.
Should cartons be packed by size or mixed?
Sorted by size is the default and it is right for most orders. It makes a stock count fast, it makes reordering straightforward, and it suits anyone who is going to shelve the garments. Mixed size runs, where each carton contains a proportional spread, suit a buyer who is distributing to several locations and wants to send one carton to each without repacking. Say which you want at quote stage; it is a production instruction rather than something that can be changed once cartons are sealed.
There is a third arrangement worth knowing about for staff kit. If you have names and sizes in advance, garments can be bagged individually with a name attached so each person collects a bag rather than hunting through a size pile. It adds a step at the factory and it needs your list to be final before production, but it turns a chaotic hand-out into a five-minute job. The rest of that process is covered in handing out hoodies to a team.
What should you check before signing for a delivery?
- Carton count against the delivery note, before the driver leaves.
- Any visible damage, crushing or water marking on the outer boxes.
- One carton opened at random, checked against its own size label.
- Total piece count against the order, once everything is open.
- Two or three garments checked for print position, colour and stitching.
That takes fifteen minutes and it is the only window in which a transit problem is easy to prove. A note on the delivery paperwork about damaged outer cartons costs nothing and protects you if the garments underneath turn out to be affected. What counts as a garment fault rather than a transit one is set out in quality checks on bulk hoodies.
What does packing add to the cost?
Standard bagging and carton packing is part of the per-piece price, and custom hoodies start at $31 a piece at the 50-piece minimum. Custom packaging is a separate item: branded polybags, printed tissue, custom outer boxes and hang tags are all quoted per job because they depend on size and print. Weight drives the delivery cost, so a heavyweight order to Europe will ship for noticeably more than a lightweight one of the same quantity. Current prices and options are on the wholesale hoodies page, and packaging vocabulary is defined in the apparel glossary.
