Postal Tubes

Strongest Art Postal Tubes


We manufacture & stock a wide variety of extra heavy duty cardboard art tubes, designed for posting your artwork, paintings, photographs, charts, blueprints and prints in the post. Our strong art grade, thick walled postal tubes will ensure your product reaches its destination safely.


Whether you are an independent fine artist, photographer or a graphic designer looking to acquire quality cardboard postal tubes, the chances are we’ll have a stock tube size to suit. However, we are always happy to discuss manufacturing cardboard round postal tubes to suit your requirements, should there not be mailing tubes on the site suitable for your needs.


Upgrade To Art Grade…

When you’ve spent countless hours creating a piece of art that you’re incredibly proud of; preparing the work for shipping can be a daunting time. Nobody wants to receive the devastating news that their artwork has sustained serious transit damage or been completely destroyed on its way to a client, a gallery or exhibition. That’s why it makes sense to upgrade to art grade cardboard postal tubes when sending original or valuable art work out through Royal Mail, a courier or any other national mail service.

Our premium quality Art Grade postal tubes are trusted by thousands of artists, art dealers, museums & art galleries in our home market here in the U.K., but also Europe, the USA, Australia & many parts of Asia.

To qualify as Art Grade our round cardboard postal tubes or poster tubes measuring 50mm / 2" diameter or below must have a wall thickness of 3mm. Tubes with wider diameters must have 4mm walls to provide the levels of protection required for protecting original art.

Many of our customers have found us after using poor quality tubes from other suppliers that are wholly unsuitable for shipping art & some not even sufficiently robust to risk sending a cheap poster. Rest assured that once you’ve started using Art Grade spiral wound tubes, most of your shipping anxieties will quickly disappear.

If you are planning to post out your art and want to discuss how best to protect it in a postage tube during transit, simply give us a call & we will be happy to offer advice.


Best Postal Tubes for Mailing Pictures


When it comes to picture packaging, tubes provide the strongest protection & packing tubes is simple whenever you’re dealing with rolled items of art or cylindrical & other slim products.

Remember that on the Art Packaging website all of our cardboard postal tubes are suitable for a range of artwork, including: original watercolours, oil paintings & prints.