Glossary
Hand Packer Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential hand packer terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key hand packer vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in hand packer training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- Carton
- Box.
- Dunnage
- Protective material.
- Ergonomics
- Fitting work to people.
- Fragile
- Easily broken.
- Mispack
- Wrong item packed.
- Order
- Customer purchase.
- Pack station
- Packing area.
- Peak season
- Busiest time.
- Rate
- Units per hour.
- Scan
- Barcode read.
- Shipping label
- Address label.
- Short
- Missing item.
- SKU
- Product ID.
- Tote
- Plastic bin.
- Void fill
- Packing material.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Hand Packer practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Hand Packer training.
Browse terms from every career in our career glossary.