How to Make a Free Shipping Label Online

PixelTools' Shipping Label Generator is a free, in-browser form that turns a from/to address, carrier, weight, and dimensions into a print-ready PDF label. Fill in the fields and it lays out a clean shipping label — sender block, dominant "SHIP TO" address, carrier and service line, ship date, weight/size, and any special-handling badges you check. Nothing you type ever leaves your browser: the PDF is generated client-side and handed back to you as a download, with no file upload and no account required. It's built for template and reference labels — personal shipments, a placeholder while you wait on an official label, or a label to tuck inside a package — not as a replacement for your carrier's own postage system (more on that below).

This is the detail worth understanding before you rely on this tool: the barcode on the label encodes a "Reference #," not a real USPS, UPS, FedEx, or DHL tracking number. If you leave that field blank, the tool auto-generates one (formatted like REF-A1B2C3D4) using your browser's crypto.randomUUID — it's labeled Reference # everywhere in the tool specifically so it's never mistaken for an official, carrier-scannable tracking barcode. You can also type your own reference into that field — an order number, an internal SKU, whatever you need to look the shipment up later — and the barcode will encode that instead. Either way, dropping the package at a carrier counter doesn't make this barcode trackable in their system; only a label generated through the carrier itself does that.

Choose "4x6" and the PDF is sized exactly 288×432pt (4×6 inches) — the standard page size thermal shipping-label printers expect, so it prints edge-to-edge with no trimming. Choose "Letter" and the tool places that identical 4×6 label content centered on a full US Letter page, surrounded by a dashed cut guide with "Cut along the dashed line" printed underneath it. That second option exists for anyone without a label printer: print it on a regular home printer, cut along the dashed border, and tape the resulting 4×6 label to your package.

The form covers a return ("from") address and a destination ("to") address, each with name, company, both address lines, city/state/zip, country, and phone. Below that: a carrier picker (USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL, or Other) plus a free-text service level field so you can note something like "Priority" or "Ground" even for a carrier not in the list, a ship date, weight (lb or kg), and dimensions (in or cm). You can also toggle special-handling badges — FRAGILE, THIS SIDE UP, DO NOT STACK — which print as bordered boxes on the label so they're visible at a glance during handling.

Reach for this tool when you need a physical, professional-looking label but don't need — or don't yet have — real prepaid carrier postage: shipping a personal item to a friend or on a marketplace where you're dropping off cash-on-delivery or handing a package straight to a carrier, printing a placeholder label while you wait for an official one from a shipping platform, or including a reference/return label inside a package for the recipient. It's not the tool for buying postage — for that you still need USPS Click-N-Ship, UPS, FedEx, or a shipping platform, which will issue you a real, carrier-scannable tracking barcode and the actual postage to go with it.

The whole label — including the barcode rendering and PDF assembly — happens in your browser using client-side JavaScript; no address, name, or file is ever sent to a server. That matters here specifically because a shipping label carries two full home addresses, plus whatever phone number or company name you add. Close the tab and the data is gone unless you've downloaded the PDF — nothing lingers on a remote server for someone else to find later. The tool is free, requires no sign-up, and works the same whether you're generating one label or several in a row for a batch of packages.