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Originally Posted by surferguy
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Does anybody know of a place in the city that has a large selection of shipping boxes? Anybody work in the shipping box industry? I can buy the ones I want online but the cost to ship is the same price as the box…
Ones I’m looking for at 18” x 14” x 4”
Hoping for a local option.
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Late reply... but does it matter if there's writing on the box? Uhaul has them and you just pick them up yourself. I think some hardware stores have them too, but Uhaul is cheapest by far.
https://www.uhaul.com/MovingSupplies...g-Box/?id=2793
If you need some plain Uline ones for shipping your own stuff, no idea on a place with good prices, sorry. I've seen the prices. Unless you order 10K+ it's insane.
But an inexpensive option... what about considering covering the entire box in colored packing tape?
Another trick I learned when working in a warehouse is that saran wrap is the cheapest and one of the most effective, cheap, strong and easy to use packaging materials ever. It prevents scratches, is robust, is form fitting and (if ignoring weight) you can easily ball up old saran wrap to create blocks to keep an object from sliding in a pinch.
There's a reason why you can essentially walk around an entire pallet 3-4x with saran wrap with of hundreds of pounds of stuff on it and not worry that it will rip as long as it has been wrapped appropriately against the pallet. Literally pennies in material.