The label printer exists; the routine makes it earn. Printing labels per-order at pack time is chaos at volume — batch-print the day's manifest, QC-match to parcels, hand over as one. The routine.
The batch flow
Cut-off at 2 pm → day's orders quoted+booked → one batch print job produces all AWB labels in pick-order. The pack bench works the stack — pick item, pack, take next label from the sorted stack, QC confirms match, onto the manifest pile.
The QC checkpoint
Batch-printing's only risk is label-swap — order 12's label on order 13's box. One pair of eyes at the QC station matches label-ordered-stack to parcel-stack: the name peek, the COD amount, the destination city. Thirty seconds per parcel, prevents the cross-ship nightmare.
The manifest document
Print or save the manifest PDF — the list of AWBs handed over, signed by the pickup rider. It's the chain-of-custody record: if a parcel goes missing between your bench and the hub, the manifest is proof it left.
The thermal advantage
Thermal labels at 4×6 print fast (~1/second), no ink smearing, and the adhesive is proper — an A4 sheet taped on a humid monsoon day peels; a thermal label stays.
Pure Parcel automates exactly this — the pipeline from order to AWB without the manual steps.
See how →The playbook
Batch-print after the cutoff
All labels one job, in pick order.
QC the label-parcel match
The thirty-second check that prevents cross-ships.
File the manifest
Signed handover sheet = proof of custody transfer.
Print extras for re-ships
Damaged label = reprint from the same batch record.
