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so what are we all doing for shipping boxes, tape, postage and so on?

I find and reuse old boxes and I found that dollar general's pro heavy duty packaging is not to bad for the price but I been wanting to find something cheaper. As for postage I use pirate ship.

Anyway What are you guys all using and were are you getting your shipping supplies ?

Some stuff I do.

Usps boxes are free. Use them to ship in or use as dividing boxes within a larger box.

Gaylords(/skids/pallets). See if a local business gets them with produce (watermelons/pumpkins/etc) or other products and they just break them down for recycle. You might get them free. Good for larger volumes or getting a bunch of different stuff all at once.

Steel banding, if you do pallets there's an 84" height limit, I stack pallets when I can but they need to be secure so I use bands to do that. I lucked into used banding equipment so I didn't have to invest much into that

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gaylords... dang you must get a lot of scrap.

Amounts vary, I'm fortunate to have a local small scrapyard that helps me out and once I have enough material I start packing a pallet or two that they can load onto a truck to ship out.

Typically I don't fill an entire gaylord with a single material, I'll get halfway, then use the walls of the box to contain boxes or barrels of other material and then if there's height left I secure another pallet on top.

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Here to learn more so I can recycle more
My grades are my own opinion and not an official grade from Boardsort