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Shipping label

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

nounCommon term

In e-commerce, shipping label means: A printed sticker on a parcel showing the sender, the delivery address, a barcode and the tracking number the carrier needs.

In Turkish: kargo etiketi, gönderi etiketi

How it is used

Sellers print or create shipping labels from their store panel or the carrier's system. For returns, stores send a return shipping label or a return code. A wrong or unreadable label is a common reason for delays.

Example sentences

  1. The shipping label was printed with last year's address, so the parcel came back.

  2. We email a prepaid return shipping label to customers who request a return.

Common collocations

  • print a shipping label
  • return shipping label
  • prepaid label
  • label printer
  • tracking numberA unique code a carrier gives to a parcel so that the seller and the customer can follow where it is until delivery.
  • carrierA company that picks up parcels from sellers and delivers them to customers, such as a national post service or a private courier company.
  • pick and packThe warehouse process of collecting the ordered items from the shelves and packing them into a box with the right label and documents.
  • returnA customer sending a purchased product back to the seller, for example because it does not fit, is faulty or is not what they expected.

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