After finding myself on my last few bubble mailers, I finally decided that I had to pony up and buy some boxes. I've been buying the bubble mailers at an office supply store, one 12-pack at a time. I just figured out the price per mailer for the first time, and I am nauseated...$1.42! Further confirmation that boxes must be purchased from now on. And anyway, I prefer the look of shipping things out in boxes.
I looked around at a number of shipping supply websites, and the problem I had was that most had a high minimum order or the prices were too high, or some combination thereof. Finally, though, I stumbled across AM Shipping Supplies. They don't have minimum orders, and they manually calculate the shipping on each order so it's very accurate. I found the boxes I needed for just 24 cents apiece, and the shipping (FedEx, estimated to be about 2-3 days) was very reasonable too at a little more than $14. So now I'll be shipping my items out in nice new boxes that each cost me 39 cents rather than those ridiculous bubble mailers. I may even be able to lower my shipping prices (although I have to weigh things in these boxes, the weight may even things out).
I normally have trouble bringing myself to spend money on things like this (see the post about ordering my business cards), but this was easier, probably because it's such a great deal.
Friday, November 21, 2008
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4 comments:
Great deal..Enjoy your boxes.
I agree. I have the hardest time finding mailers. I even tried the "other e" for decent prices on envelopes. It is so hard to shell out money for these things. Thanks for the link, I will definitely check them out.
Thanks for this, I've been looking everywhere for boxes with no minimum order!
Your link is a little wonky, though. You need to point here:
www.amshippingsupplies.com
Thanks, again!
You can usually get free boxes from stores around you - grocery stores, the dollar stores, almost anywhere. We get all our merchandise shipped to us and then end up throwing away all our boxes and mailing supplies. Employees might even be thrilled that you'd save them the trouble of cutting down all the boxes and hauling them out to the dumpsters! And you'll get the pleasure of recycling.
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