A team of 500 professional gift wrappers are poised and ready to put the finishing touches on gifts for customer's loved ones at Amazon Dunfermline. 

Two million rolls of wrapping paper, 2,500 miles of ribbon and 1.5 million gift boxes will be used by the team shipping Christmas orders. 

Perfect wrapping can be a tricky business, but new recruits to Amazon’s gift wrapping team will have the guiding hand of expert, Ruth Thompson, who has worked as a personal gift wrapper in the Dunfermline fulfilment centre for seven years.

“I take a lot of pride in wrapping presents and getting the presentation just right – even though I know they’ll be ripped open on Christmas day,” laughed Ruth.

“The hardest thing I’ve had to wrap so far this year has been a child’s tractor as there were so many angles!"

Her top tips for wrapping this year are; pick creative colours, buy a sticky tape dispenser for easiness, only use as much paper as you need to make it look neat and think outside the box if an object is a tricky shape.