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Archives for the ‘Packing Supplies’ Category

What’s a ‘ballooned’ pack job?

By • Jul 13th, 2009 • Category: Consumer Help, Packing Supplies

  June’s activity and revenue results are still preliminary but many relocation vendors are seeing another very soft start to the traditional moving season.    Not only has the frequency of personal and corporate transfers been affected by the continuing slump in the economy worldwide, many individual consumers and families in the U.S. have drastically [...]



How to Find Cheap Moving Cartons at Community Box Exchanges

By • May 20th, 2009 • Category: Cartons, Consumer Help, Green Initiatives, Packing Supplies

  It’s hard to write not knowing if anyone is actually reading the words. Just when you think you’re talking to an empty room, someone in the back raises their hand with a question. A reader from western Nebraska sent a note after reading a piece prepared last year about Moishe’s Box Exchange program in [...]



Marketing to College Students

By • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Containerized Freight, Long Distance, Packing Supplies, Small Shipments, STORAGE SOLUTIONS

The Fall issue of Mobile Self Storage Magazine contained an article about Marketing to College Students that caught my attention because of the references to how some of the alternative self-storage and personal container box companies are positioning themselves in front of the 18 million students enrolled in colleges and universities across the United States.