Anyone in shipping and receiving?

[black2002ls]

I've been doing a lot of business on e-bay selling cake related items. Mostly cupcake rings for themed parties. I've been sourcing boxes from work (small) to ship these items in. Mostly 6"x2"x4". We receive some small items at work in them. I typically sell anywhere from 1-10 dozen rings at a time. Margin isn't spectacular, $1.70-$10 depending on the size of the order, so cost is a factor. Does anyone know of the best place to buy shipping boxes CHEAP? I've been wondering if bubble mailers will suffice, I'm going to do some test shipments at the end of the month with some left over Halloween rings and see what happens.

[Sleeper]

Usps boxes

[Redd]

Usps boxes

They are free as well correct?

[SMKR]

Go to any fedex establishment and take their free ones.

[black2002ls]

Usps boxes

The small flat rate boxes are nice, but at 4.85 for shipping, its not economical. I can ship them first class for 2.00 if I can source the boxes cheap enough

[03mustangdude]

go to oreillys and autozone and see if the manager can save you some bulb boxes ( the ones that headlights or taillights etc ) come in and use those they are sort of flimsy but i add a hard cardboard on top bottom and sometimes sides, if needed, and then ship them like that.

Usually each store gets about 10-20 boxes every truck shipment. Whenever I sold on ebay those were the best boxes. Most managers have no problem giving those away just like oil boxes. Stop by one on a saturday that is when there big truck is usually.

[347Mike]

go to oreillys and autozone and see if the manager can save you some bulb boxes ( the ones that headlights or taillights etc ) come in and use those they are sort of flimsy but i add a hard cardboard on top bottom and sometimes sides, if needed, and then ship them like that.

Usually each store gets about 10-20 boxes every truck shipment. Whenever I sold on ebay those were the best boxes. Most managers have no problem giving those away just like oil boxes. Stop by one on a saturday that is when there big truck is usually.

So you basically take a flimsy ass box, use it as a template and make your own box?

[03mustangdude]

So you basically take a flimsy ass box, use it as a template and make your own box?

depends on what i was shipping really. If it was under 8 ounces box would hold no problem ( rated for 12) but if I was shipping something like computer hardware I would add extra protection. Users choice.

[scootro]

http://www.uline.com/Cls_04/Boxes-Corrugated

add price per box with your ebay sales and shipping cost

[Forever_frost]

You can go on the Post Office site and ask them to send you as many free boxes as you want. Straight to your door.

[scootro]

you can go on the post office site and ask them to send you as many free boxes as you want. Straight to your door.

the small flat rate boxes are nice, but at 4.85 for shipping, its not economical. I can ship them first class for 2.00 if i can source the boxes cheap enough

[cool cat]

My company is extremely cheap, so we use Kent H. Landberg Company. But we use a lot of shipping supplies (8 + pallets a month of bulk boxes and shipping supplies) so we get a nice volume discount. Uline is usually higher priced so we don't use them unless Kent Landsberg can't meet out needs.

[GrayStangGT]

Go to the Academy in NRH, they don't have a trash compactor and have a dumpster just for cardboard. Go dumpster diving for all the free boxes you want, you just have to tape them back together since they break them down to fit more in there.

[Hobie]

usps.com - they are not all flat-rate

Order as many as you want, but don't expect them to arrive all at the same time.

I think the most I ever ordered online at a single time was 400ish and it took about three weeks for all of them to arrive. FWIW they were different sizes. Most of them ended up shipping out UPS, whoops!

[YALE]

Did you try setting up an account with uline?