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Boxes for Posting

Fail

Shoppers spend an estimated $50K a year here, so Boxes for Posting is a Fail.

Flapen Score
39
39 / 100
Ranks 638 of 740 Business, Industry & Science niches · −10 vs the category median of 49
Market size
£50K/yr116K searches / yr
90-day growth
-17.9%search demand this quarter
Competition
65%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 22 sellers

Flapen Score

Boxes for Posting against its category

The dotted line is the Business, Industry & Science average. Past it, Boxes for Posting is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

39Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Boxes for Posting market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Boxes for Posting 116K times last year and spent an estimated £50K. The top 5 brands take 82% of clicks. Demand peaks in Sep–Nov. Flapen scores it 39 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 4.8% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 116K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 4.8% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -17.9% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £50K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
116K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-17.9%
Conversion, latest week
4.8%
Market size, estimated
£50Ka year
Peak month
November1.7× the quietest month
Top search term
small boxes for posting33K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.93.

Listings sell for £8.93 on average, from £4.01 to £17.31. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 5K to 6K a year. The average listing sells 100 to 250 of them. At £8.93 that is £893 to £2K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.93under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.01–£17.31
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
5K–6K
Units per listing a year
100–250
Revenue per listing a year
£893–£2K
Returns
0.4%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

72% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 72% ship with Prime. On an average day, 2.4% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #95 within Packaging & Shipping Supplies. It carries 710 reviews at 4.47 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
72%
Prime listings
72%
Out of stock, average day
2.4%
Average rank
#95in Packaging & Shipping Supplies
Average rating
4.47 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
710per listing
Listings tracked
18

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 40 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
40 months

Products

Top Boxes for Posting products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 21, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 65% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£5K£10K£15K£20K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 falling

Sellers

22

Est. top-5 brand share

82%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

65%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

14%

  • Triplast44%
  • Trendecor14%
  • STRBOXONG12%
  • All-Pack Solutions7%
  • Apex Business Supplies5%
  • HORLIMER4%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 14%)

Demand

Boxes for Posting search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

5K3KSpike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Sep, Nov · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Search terms

Top Boxes for Posting search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • small boxes for posting33K/yr
  • small postage boxes17K/yr
  • small shipping boxes14K/yr
  • packaging boxes for small business11K/yr
  • postage boxes small parcel8K/yr
  • small postal boxes7K/yr
  • shipping boxes small6K/yr
  • small packaging boxes6K/yr
  • mailer boxes4K/yr
  • 45 x 35 x 16 postal box4K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Boxes for Posting

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

19%of positive reviews mention “Value For Money”
25%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
0.4%of orders come back
“boxes are bad quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”25% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Boxes for Posting questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data