Thermal Shipping Label — The 4×6-inch adhesive label couriers scan — printed on a thermal printer with no ink. Contains AWB barcode, addresses and routing codes.

Why it matters to your store

A ₹4,000 thermal printer pays for itself fast: ink-free, smudge-proof, scannable. Hand-written or A4-pasted labels cause scan failures and misroutes.

This is the vocabulary every courier invoice, NDR report and rate card is written in — learn it once, save money forever.

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Worked example

Print the AWB label at booking → stick → manifest scan → the parcel is in the network.

The bottom line

Shipping jargon is really just the billing manual in disguise — every term on this list maps to a line on an invoice or a lever on your margins. Pure Parcel is built so you rarely have to think about it: statuses normalise, bills reconcile, and quotes already include the surcharges.