Apartments restricting package receiving to tenants.

Check out the latest link from The Wall Street Journal about restrictive e commerce package delivery.    This particular article/video talks about limiting the number of packages, or eliminating package delivery altogether to certain large apartment landlords. Web-Shopping Deluge Boxes In Landlords. Here is the link:  Wall Street Journal Apartment …

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How to Pack and Crate Two Small Chests.

These two chests were crated and packed on the same order as the serving tables.  They were both placed in the same crate.  The crate is foam lined and has soft foam surrounds around the edges and corners.  Note the sheet foam on the sides, bubble wrap around the pieces …

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How to Pack and Crate Two Serving Tables.

One of our customers that sells fine English Antiques called us and said she had two serving tables that need to be shipped to the east coast.  We picked them up, crated, packed, and shipped them.  Check out this sequence of pictures to see how they were packed together in …

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Crating, Packing and Shipping a Flying Goose!

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Several months ago a customer of the Mail Center asked me if we could ship some taxidermy for him.   Now normally that usually means something small like a deer head or some antlers, or even a squirrel or fish.  So when he said he had a goose, naturally I …

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Antiques and Collectibles Packing and Shipping

The Mail Center can help with all your shipping needs!  Not just small packages.  We ship virtually anything anywhere.  Custom packaging and crates are our specialty.  Look through our packing and crating gallery to see some of the items we have shipped.  Just recently we helped one of our customers …

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Elvis “Lives” at The Mail Center.

A few days ago, one of our customers brought us one of the strangest items we’ve ever seen here at our little business. True to Memphis, we were asked to ship a larger-than-life-size animatronic bust of Elvis Presley. The thing talked and blinked as if we were really in the …

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