The Next Investment

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.