•  Weight is 151 lbs. or more.
•  Girth of 166 inches or more.

Note: Girth is calculated by adding the longest side + twice the width + twice the depth.
(Girth = L + 2W + 2D)

Because of its large size and weight, freight poses challenges that ordinary packages do not. That’s why it’s so important to rely on experienced professionals who have the proper facilities and tools to do the job right.

At The Shipping Place we carefully box or crate all freight items and always secure them to a pallet. Without the protection of a pallet, the risk of breakage is very high. Even worse, when freight is shipped without a pallet, it can seriously endanger the safety of personnel handling the shipment along the way.

The Shipping Place has ample space with garage door access, a 2000 pound scale, and pallet jacks, dollies and forklifts to safely move your shipment onto a tractor trailer. Your valuable freight items are never left outside to be exposed to the weather or to be accessible to vandals. And to be sure that we’re doing the job right, we are formally trained and have been certified in packing and shipping freight by the Associated Mail and Parcel Centers (AMPC).

So count on The Shipping Place for all your freight shipping needs. Bring your freight items to our facility, or just give us a call and we’ll pick them up at your location.

Today is the spring equinox. At this point it is time to think back on this harsh winter and look forward to the warmth of spring and summer. In a couple of months we will all be wishing for some cooler temperatures as the heat of summer is having us come unglued. At that point we will be wishing for some cooler weather.

I personally have always said it would be great if we could bottle some of those cold temperatures of winter and let them loose in the summer. The reverse is also true. At this point just sit back and enjoy the season of spring as all our snow and ice melts away. Watching the trees bud and the event of everything turning green is always nice in the spring. It is just a little sweeter this year after our brutal winter.

Welcome to spring! FINALLY

Stemware

Before we begin, here is some stemware terminology. The base is the flat piece of glass that sits on the table. The bowl is the part that holds the drink. The stem is the part that connects the bowl and the base.

So let’s start with the first piece of stemware. The stem is the weakest part of the glass, so you need to pad the stem with bubble wrap all the way out to the widest part of the bowl or base.

Once the stem is wrapped, the bowl must be filled with some type of filler, usually crumpled paper. Here’s how you know you’ve done it right. Think of the nice “ding” sound you’d hear if you tapped the empy glass with your fingernail. If you’ve properly filled the glass with paper, tapping it with your nail will produce only a dull thump. Why is this important? Because sound waves can actually break an unprotected stemware bowl in transport.

The final step in preparing your stemware for boxing is to put bubble wrap around the entire piece. It is not uncommon to use six feet of bubble wrap on a single piece of stemware! After you’ve completed all these steps with all the stemware, you can move on to the cups.

Cups

A cup’s weakest point is the handle. The best way to protect it is to pack two cups at a time with a piece of cardboard, folded into a “Z” shape, between them. The tops of the two cups will be facing each other, with the trunk of the “Z” in between. The handles of the cups will be pointing in opposite directions, nestled into the corners of the “Z”. Once the two cups and the cardboard are positioned properly, stretch wrap them all together so they all become on unit. Be sure to put enough stretch wrap around the cups so the handles can’t move out of the corners of the “Z”.

Repeat this process with each pair of cups. If you have an odd number of cups, put the last one into an “L” shaped piece of cardboard and stretch wrap it so that the handle nestles into the corner of the “L”.

Now that you have the handles and rims of the cups protected, wrap the stretch-wrapped units in two layers of bubble wrap. This will protect the cups from being chipped or broken.

Boxing

Now it’s time to box your cups and stemware and get them on their way. Use double-walled boxes, since these are stronger and more durable than single-walled. Lay the stemware pieces side by side in a box, alternating them so each base is adjacent to the top of the next glass. Be sure to add packing peanuts as needed to eliminate any possibility of movement. When all the stemware is in the box, place this box inside a larger box, allowing at least two inches of space on all four sides as well as above and below. For example, if you packed your stemware into an 18” x 18” x 18” box, the outside box needs to be at least 22” x 22” x 22”. Fill the space between the two boxes with packing peanuts.

It is fine to pack the stemware and cups together. If you have a gravy boat, butter dish or a meat platter these may also be packed together with the cups and stemware

Congratulations! You did it!

To summarize, here are the materials you would need to pack 24 pieces of stemware and 12 cups:

1. 200 feet 5/16” bubble wrap
2. 7 cubic feet of packing peanuts
3. 200 feet of 3” stretch wrap
4. Double walled Box 18” x 18” x 18”
5. Double walled Box 22” x 22” x 22”
6. 2 – 3 hours packing time

As you can see, packing stemware and cups is very time consuming and requires a lot of packing materials. You have much better things to do! So why not leave it up to the pros at The Shipping Place? Just bring your stemware and cups to our store at 600 Violet Avenue, Hyde Park, NY and relax! We’ll take care of the work and get your package safely on its way!

Packing china is not difficult but it is a time consuming and material intensive process. Let’s assume you have twelve sets of dinner plates, bread plates, salad plates, cup saucers, and fruit bowls. This gives you a total of 60 pieces of china to pack.

To start you need to get all the dinner plates together and enough 5/16” bubble wrap to make 11 sheets that are 12” by 12”. Start with a plate, lay a piece of bubble wrap on top of it, add another plate, another piece of bubble wrap. Continue this process until you have all 12 plates stacked upon each other with bubble wrap in between them. Make sure none of the plates will be able to touch each other. If they touch they will get chipped or broken during the shipping process.

But wait, you’re not done with those dinner plates yet! Now you need to wrap two layers of ½” bubble wrap around the entire stack. This will take approximately six feet of bubble wrap. Wrap the stack with a one foot wide strip of bubble wrap and secure the ends. Then use a second strip of bubble wrap and place it perpendicular to the first, wrapping the stack of plates again to cover all exposed edges.

Repeat the same process with the bread and salad plates, saucers, and fruit bowls.

Now that all the plates, bowls, and saucers are bubble wrapped, it is time to box them. Put the items into a box which will hold all the items. Fill all the empty spaces around these items with packing peanuts to eliminate the possibility of movement. Next, you need to put this box into another larger box with at least two inches of padding on all six sides. Let’s assume you packed everything into a 14” x 14” x 14” box. Now you need a box with dimensions of 18” x 18” x 18”. The space between the two boxes will be filled with packing peanuts. We recommend that the outer box be a double walled box. These boxes are stronger and more durable in the shipping process.

Congratulations! You have completed the packing process for the plates, saucers and bowls. Here is a list of the materials needed to accomplish this task:

1. 55 feet 5/16” bubble wrap
2. 50 feet ½” bubble wrap
3. 4 cubic feet of packing peanuts
4. Box 14” x 14” x 14”
5. Double walled Box 18” x 18” x 18”
6. 2 – 3 hours packing time

Packing china is very material and time intensive. You have much better things to do! So why not leave it up to the pros at The Shipping Place? Just bring your china to our store at 600 Violet Avenue Hyde Park, NY and relax while we take care of the work and get your package safely on its way

Bring us the gifts you’d like to send for Valentine’s Day! We will carefully box, pack and ship them to your loved ones. Over the years we have shipped countless boxes of candy to bring smiles to the faces of loved ones across the miles. We’ve even shipped an engagement ring to the love of one man’s life, and what a wonderful surprise it was for his bride-to-be. We can do the same for you! We’ll make sure the ring is delivered overnight and before a specific time of day, so that you’ll know when to call her to pop the big question.

If you prefer, you may box and pack your own items, but most of our customers rely on us to do it for them. If we pack your items, we will take into consideration the size, weight, fragility, value, and several other factors before deciding on the best way to pack them. You can rest easy, knowing they will be delivered on time and in the same condition they were when you brought them to our store.

All of us here at The Shipping Place wish you and your loved ones a very special Valentine’s Day.

 Don’t have time to come to The Shipping Place to buy your textbooks?  Not a problem!  Just go to our online textbook buy & sell page at http://theshippingplace.com/textbook-buy-sell. No matter what college or university you attend, you can rent or buy just the books you need with a minimum of fuss, right from the comfort of your computer chair. Your textbooks will be shipped to you at standard or expedited rates – your choice.

 One more thing. Could you use some cash? Do you still have old textbooks that you don’t need anymore? Good news! We buy textbooks year round. Just bring your old textbooks to The Shipping Place at 600 Violet Ave Hyde Park, NY 12538.  We will scan the ISBN codes, determine the value of your books, and pay you cash on the spot!

Actually, it can! To make things even more convenient, we’ll have a second location during the week of finals, December 13 – 17. That week, we will also be located at the K & D Deli (264 North Rd.) about a block from the Marist College campus.  This is our second time at this satellite location.  We look forward to seeing our old friends and meeting new ones.

If you have purchased a pizza from Pleasant Ridge Pizzeria, 264 North Rd., you should have received a textbook buyback coupon.  With the special coupon you’ll be eligible to receive an extra 10% for each book.  Just bring it in with your books to get your extra 10%. 

That’s not all! The first 50 students to sell us textbooks for $100 or more will get not only the extra 10% but also a free slice of pizza from Pleasant Ridge Pizzeria!

Once you’ve enjoyed the holidays with your family and friends it will soon be time to start the spring semester and you’ll be needing books for all those new classes.  Whether you attend a local college (Marist, Vassar, or Dutchess) or you go to school somewhere else, you can get the books you need without leaving the warmth and comfort of the indoors!  Rent or buy new or used textbooks online at http://theshippingplace.com/textbook-buy-sell. Check it out – we’re ready to help you with all your textbook needs.

The newest commercial shows a woman with an arm full of gift wrapped packages. She is informed of how little hassle it is to ship these boxes.  Then she opens the trunk of her car which is completely filled with wrapped packages.  Let’s assume all these wrapped packages will fit into their largest box (which they won’t) and that she can get 2 packages into each of these boxes.  She has a minimum of 50 packages giving her 25 boxes to ship.  Each box costs $14.90 for this carrier to ship.  Her total for shipping is $372.50 (15 * 25 = 372.50). Insurance on each of these boxes is an added expense. 

We can box, pack, insure and ship those same wrapped packages to San Diego, CA for about $265.  We would be shipping 5 boxes each weighing 15 pounds.  The choice is yours to make but The Shipping Place is offering the best deal over all.  We take the hassle out of shipping.  Just bring your presents in and put us to the test.

UPS, FedEx, DHL, and the USPS occasionally send an emails indicating a package is not addressed properly or can’t be delivered.  The difference is their emails never contain an attached file.  By opening this attached file you will be infecting your computer.  The attached files in the emails are as follows:

• Ups_invoice.zip containing the file ups_invoice.exe
• FEDEXInvoice.zip containing an executable file
• FedEx_mailing_label_ID.zip containing an executable file
• USPSlabel.zip containing an executable file

Unfortunately we do not know the name of the DHL file.  The UPS and FedEx viruses lure people to open them by indicating a package can’t be delivered due to an incomplete address.  If you click on the zip file a window very similar to a Microsoft Word icon appears making it appear harmless.  From our understanding it is at this point your computer gets infected.

The DHL version has the subject line “DHL Tracking Number”.  This email contains an attachment to infect your computer with the virus.

The USPS virus asks the unsuspecting person to print a mailing label to lure them in.  Upon opening the attachment is when the malware is activated.

The Shipping Place has been contacted 3 times this week with people wanting us to give their correct address to DHL and FedEx.   We have informed our customers this in a virus and to delete it immediately.  Please be extremely careful with these viruses as they are malicious.

 So let us make your holiday shipping fast and easy for you.  If you are already one of our customers, just send us an email containing your first and last name and then the names and addresses of the lucky people you’ll be sending presents to. 

 Not a customer of The Shipping Place yet? No problem!  Send us an email containing your full name, address, and phone number, along with the names, addresses and phone numbers of your loved ones. 

 We’ll store the information you send us in our secure data base, so when you bring your holiday gifts to our store, we’ll be able to print shipping labels with just a few clicks of our mouse. Our system will automatically calculate your shipping charges based on the size and weight of your presents.  After you leave, we will carefully box and pack your gifts and ship them to your loved ones the same day.  We’ll also email you the tracking numbers of your packages, and we’ll even email you when they have been delivered.  

 Just yesterday a customer was shipping items at approximately 5:00PM.  The UPS driver was here and we ask him to stay for an extra few minutes.  Within five minutes the item was boxed, packed, labeled and on the UPS truck.  Needless to say the customer was quite happily on her way. This was possible because we had our customer’s and the recipient’s information in our computer system.

 During the busy holiday season, we’ll have you in and out of The Shipping Place within just a few minutes.  After all, you have more important things to do than stand in line to ship your gifts!

 By the way, we take privacy very seriously at The Shipping Place. Your data is safe with us.  We have never sold and never will sell personal information to anyone.