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With the holidays right around the corner and an over abundance of packages in the shipping stream, make sure you’re packing your gifts and merchandise correctly. The right packaging technique and materials will help protect contents from breaking during shipment.

There are a couple of factors to consider when purchasing a shipping box to ship your products/items. They are Measurement and Box Strength.

Measurements:   Corrugated cartons are always measured L x W x H (D), with L (length) being the longest side of the box, W (width) being the adjacent side, and H (D) (height/depth) being the height of the box. Please note: dimension listed are inside dimensions.

Box Strength: Shipping boxes come with different wall strengths depending on the weight of your contents.  Here is a guideline on the different wall strengths and the weight of the product they will hold.

Contents:                            Choose:
Up to 65 lbs.*                     200#/ECT-32 Single-Wall Corrugated
66 lb. – 95 lb.*                   275#/ECT-44 Single-Wall Corrugated
96 lb. – 100 lb.*                 275#/ECT-48 Double-Wall Corrugated
*These are only guidelines and weight must be distributed evenly.

In addition, there are different types of boxes to choose from depending on your needs. Here is a list of the most popular shipping boxes and the uses for them.

Fixed Depth Shipping Boxes

• Meets most mailing and shipping carrier requirements.
• 200#/ECT-32 Single-Wall Corrugated
• Strong, durable corrugated fiberboard
• Contains a minimum of 30% recycled content.

Heavy Duty Shipping Boxes

• Heavy-duty boxes are ideal when additional stacking strength is needed.
• Available in heavy-duty 275#/ECT-44 Single-Wall Corrugated
• Heavy-duty construction provides greater protection and stacking strength
• Boxes are 40% stronger than standard shipping boxes.

Multi-Depth Shipping Boxes

• Customize the depth of your boxes to meet all your shipping needs.
• Prescored to allow easy height adjustment for a perfect fit.
• 200#/ECT-32 Single-Wall Corrugated

 Moving Boxes and Kits

• The complete moving solution for packing any room of your house/office.
• Heavy-duty boxes provide added protection to ensure that your shipments arrive safe.
• Deluxe Moving Boxes feature special “flap tabs” that hold flaps down and out of the way, making packing easier.
• Deluxe Moving Boxes feature preprinted handling instructions.
• Contains a minimum of 30% recycled content.

Finally, now that you found the right box for your shipping requirements, don’t forget about the other shipping supplies necessary to ship your items!

Cushioning:  For contents requiring extra cushioning, allow 2”-3” around all sides of the product for void fill such as Bubble Wrap® or loose fill. Allow 2”-3” extra above and below the contents.

Sealing Tape: Use a carton-sealing tape at least 2” wide. Tape must extend at least 2” over the edge of the box.

Shipping Supply, LLC has moved into a new facility located in Milwaukee, WI.  Our new facility is much larger, which will allow us to add more shipping supplies and continue to grow.  Our new corporate contact information has changed to the following:

Shipping Supply, LLC
530 West Oklahoma Avenue
Milwaukee, WI  53207

Phone: 1-414-290-1073
Toll Free: 1-877-501-PACK
Fax: 1-414-290-1173

One thing nice about selling shipping supplies is that we had all the moving boxes necessary for an easy move!

Today we launched a mobile version of ShippingSupply.com to provide iPhone®, Android, and other mobile-device users with a mobile-enhanced shopping experience.

Our mobile site features our complete product line of over 10,000 shipping and packaging supplies.  The new site makes it easy for users to quickly complete transactions and check on the status of new and previous orders.

So if you are an eBay Seller, Small Business Owner, or a Corporate Purchasing Manager needing to buy packaging supplies while on the go…ShippingSupply.com Mobile is your solution!

Best of all there is nothing to download or install.  Our site will detect visitors using a mobile device and automatically display
ShippingSupply.com Mobile.  We guess you can say…“There’s no App for that!”

In October 2010 we pledged to donate $1.00 for every order received during the month of October to Susan G. Komen for the Cure – Southeast Wisconsin®.  As a result we have made a donation in the amount of $1,000.

• Seventy-five percent of funds raised goes to local grants with programs addressing the needs of underserved women with breast cancer education, screening and access to treatment in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha and Jefferson Counties in Wisconsin.
• Twenty-five percent of funds raised goes to breast cancer research at the national level.

We would like to thank all of our customers for their purchases during the month of October which helped to fund this donation.  We are proud to announce that we will continue to support Breast Cancer Awareness Month every October going forward.

Together we can make a difference!

Christian Rano

President
Shipping Supply, LLC

Helping to find a cure for breast cancer is not just a charitable event at ShippingSupply.com.  It’s personal.

On Sunday, November 8^th, 2009 I received the call that I had hoped to never get.  I answered the phone and my father said, “Chris, you need to come home.  Mom is in the hospital and she’s not doing well.”  She passed away on November 19^th, 2009 due to complications of breast cancer.  This was the saddest day of my life.

It has almost been a year since my mother passed and when I look back I am thankful to have had the opportunity to have had her in my life for 40 years.  Why?  Because she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1984 when I was only 15 years old.  She underwent treatment and survived 25 wonderful and happy years.  I don’t know what I would have done or where I would be without her love, guidance and support during my developmental years.

In an effort to help others have their mother (sister, wife, grandmother, aunt, girlfriend) in their life longer (like I did), Shipping Supply, LLC will donate $1.00 for every order placed in the month of October to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure – Southeast Wisconsin®.

• Seventy-five percent of funds raised goes to local grants with programs addressing the needs of underserved women with breast cancer education, screening and access to treatment in Milwaukee, Ozaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha and Jefferson Counties in Wisconsin.
• Twenty-five percent of funds raised goes to breast cancer research at the national level.

You order and we donate.  Together we can make a difference!

Christian Rano

President
Shipping Supply, LLC

We recently added Power Reviews to ShippingSupply.com which will allow our customers to review an item using “tags,” or succinct keywords that help to describe the “Pros”, “Cons”, and “Best Uses” of a particular product.  Reviewers can include pictures and videos of themselves interacting with the product.  Finally customers can comment on the service we provided.  You know something like “I cannot believe how fast I received my order!  I love ShippingSupply.com.”  At the end of every review each customer states their “Bottom line” by stating “Yes, I would recommend this to a friend” or “No, I would not recommend this to a friend”.

So what are the benefits of writing and reading reviews?  All the reviews are objective and submitted by people who are using the product on a frequent basis.  The staff at ShippingSupply.com cannot alter a review in any way.  Additionally, we are confident that best practices and unique uses will surface helping shoppers make great buying decisions.

To read a review, simply click on the product of interest and click on the “Customer Reviews” tab.  To leave a review, visit the product page and click “Write a Review” located below the “Add to Cart” button and under the “Customer Reviews” tab.

So what are you waiting for?  Read a Review…and leave one too!

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Shipping Supply, LLC has acquired CorrugatedMailers.com.  With this domain name we plan to create a product specific landing page that will drive traffic to our main site ShippingSupply.com.

We are pleased to once again work with ecommerce management and consulting firm Groove Commerce, who will develop and design the landing page for this project.  The landing page will resemble and seamlessly integrate with our main site.

The increase in traffic generated by the CorrugatedMailers.com will allow us to showcase our world class customer service and grow our business.

Shipping Supply, LLC has acquired WhiteBubbleMailers.com and PolyBubbleMailers.com.  With these domain names we plan to create product specific landing pages that will drive traffic to our main site ShippingSupply.com.

We are pleased to once again work with ecommerce management and consulting firm Groove Commerce, who will develop and design the landing pages for this project.  The landing pages will resemble and seamlessly integrate with our main site.

The increase in traffic generated by the WhiteBubbleMailers.com and PolyBubbleMailers.com will allow us to showcase our world class customer service and grow our business.

First we would like to thank everyone who became “A Fan” of ShippingSupply.com.  Through our Facebook Fan Page we will deliver our daily “Deal of the Day” updates and weekly sales specials.

And now we are happy to announce the winners of our “Free Shipping Supplies for a Year Contest”.

Grand Prize Winner:

• Espacioshop Ventas (Encarnacion Flores)

Bubble Calendar Winners:

• AJ Whistler
• Linda Alexander Rightmire
• Kayne Wisniewski
• Otis Schroeder
• Maiysha Somers-Jones
• Aaron Doretta Koldenhoven
• Seth Morrigan
• Chris Martin
• Janet Hurlbut
• Bob Jones

Again, we thank everyone and hope you follow us to our next contest… @shippingsupply!