Delivery Bags

Handling Bags

Requesting Additional Delivery Bags

If a library is short on delivery bags, a request can be sent to the Delivery Listserv (MOB-Delivery-L) and member libraries can ship their excess bags to the requesting library. 

Subscribe to the MOB-Delivery-L list

Damaged Bags

Damaged bags should be returned to the MOBIUS office for counting and disposal. Tracking the numbers of damaged bags helps MOBIUS determine how long they last in use. The address for the MOBIUS office is in the website Label Maker.

Which Bags to Use

When sending materials out the black MOBIUS bags are universal, they can go to any library you can print a label for.

When returning items to partners outside of MOBIUS, if you have one of their bags it should be used with one of their items, such as a Tran-Amigos bag for a book going to a Trans-Amigos library.  If you have excess bags that belong to another organization and don't plan on using them, they can be sent to the MOBIUS Headquarters for return using delivery code MO-NO-102

If you have other questions please e-mail:  courier@mobiusconsortium.org

Annual Bag Inventory

Each year MOBIUS does an inventory of all bags in the system to help us determine if additional bags need to be purchased. For additional information see the Annual Delivery Bag Inventory Procedure

Year Bag Order Total Bags Purchased Bag Count Total Tote Order Total Totes Purchased Tote Count Total
FY1999-2000 1000 1000 - -  - - - - - -
FY2000-2001 1000 2000 3757 - - - - - -
FY2002-2003 - -  4200 3204 - - - - - -
FY2003-2004 1000 5200 2063 - - - - - -
FY2004-2005 - -  - -  3380 (Nov) - - - -  - -
FY2004-2005 - - 5200 3550  - - - - - -
FY2005-2006 - -  5200 3201 - - - - - -
FY2006-2007 2000 7200 5102 - - - - - -
FY2007-2008 2000 9200 5845 - - - - - -
FY2008-2009 2000 11200 7512 - - - - - -
FY2009-2010 1500/500 13200 9683 - - - - - -
FY2010-2011 - -  13200 10828 - - - - - -
FY2011-2012 - -  13200 10238 - - - - - -
FY2012-2013 - -  13200 9394 - - - - - -
FY2013-2014 - -  13200 6958 - - - - - -
FY2014-2015 2000 15200 6974 - - - - - -
FY2015-2016 4000 19200 12037 250/250 500 - -
FY2016-2017 - - 19200 10090 500 1000 - -
FY2017-2018 - - 19200 12677 - - 1000 - -
FY2018-2019 - - 19200 12707 500 1500 - -
FY2019-2020 - - 19200 N/A - - 1500 - -
FY2020-2021 - - 19200 N/A 125/200 1825 - -
FY2021-2022 - - 19200 N/A (July) - - 1825 921
FY2021-2022 - - 19200 8130 (Sept) - - 1825 646
FY2021-2022 - - 19200 8386 (May) - - 1825 699

Notes:
Information has been reconstructed from historical data, where no data was available the cell is blank.
Bag orders tended to arrive after the count was completed, so the Grand Total may not include that year's order.
In 2004 there were two bag counts, the second one in November is also shown.
FY2001-2002 had two separate bag orders of 1,100 each.
FY2014-2015 had two separate bag orders of 1,000 each.

FY2017-2018 STAT counted all delivery bags in their possession as MOBIUS bags.