Where do you go to get cardboard boxes for shipping?

[iamtrout]

I live on campus and the campus mailroom doesn't sell boxes. Neither does the bookstore. Where else can I go to just get regular cardboard boxes for mailing stuff?

Thanks

 

[ElFenix]

back of a grocery store

 

[leftyman]

supermarket..diaper boxes

 

[Baked]

Ummm, ever heard of USPS.com? Free flat rate priority boxes.

 

[Ipno]

UPS

 

[Tea Bag]

Grocery store. If call ahead and say "hey, I need X cereal or tissue boxes" (those ones would fit the dimensions you require), you should be set.

 

[bleeb]

UHaul.

 

[iamtrout]

I take it the boxes at grocery stores are free?

 

[jordanz]

I get the impression they won't be.

 

[Tea Bag]

Originally posted by: iamtrout
I take it the boxes at grocery stores are free?

Every store i've seen they are. Otherwise, they just go in the trash and get compacted/recycled. It's good PR to give free stuff away!

 

[dullard]

I do it in this order (lower is better):

1) Work: usually there are shipping boxes that come in each day. Free.
2) Grocery store: free and most convenient off-work sites.
3) Recycling center: free but not close to where I live/work.
4) UPS
5) U-haul or other shipping company
6) Menards/Home Depot/Etc.

 

[2cpuminimum]

Order a big subwoofer. Or a monitor. It'll come in a box.

 

[ShadowBlade]

Originally posted by: 2cpuminimum
Order a big subwoofer. Or a monitor. It'll come in a box.

QFT

 

[jonny13]

My brother just got some large heavy duty boxes at Dick's Sporting Goods (formally Gallians sp?).

 

[FoBoT]

i get them from work. we throw away crap loads of computer boxes that size

 

[mchammer]

Hmm Grocery Store... I spent like $15 for a 24" sqaure box once...