Your Holiday Packaging & Shipping Checklist

The holiday shipment frenzy is about to begin. Have you made your packaging list and checked it twice? If not, MrBoxOnline can help.

The Perfect Recipe for Shipping Food

Giving the gift of food this holiday season? Plan ahead and prepare with helpful tips from MrBoxOnline. We’ve been helping people and businesses prepare perishable items for shipment for nearly 40 years. With the proper packaging and shipment know-how, your perishable gifts will arrive intact, edible and delicious.

The last straw for Starbucks

With a decision to phase out plastic straws from more than 28,000 stories worldwide by 2020, Starbucks is joining a growing number of corporations taking steps to reduce their carbon footprint and be better stewards of the environment.

Thanksgiving Trivia

This Thanksgiving, millions of Americans will gather with friends and family for an American tradition: give thanks, watch football, eat turkey, and settle in for a nap – although not necessarily in that order. We thought we’d share some fun Thanksgiving fodder to keep the conversation flowing between football quarters or while passing the mashed potatoes.

Shop More, Save More: Get Rewarded for Your Loyalty

The more you shop for office, packaging and shipment supplies at MRBOXonline, the more money you’ll save. We reward our valued customers by stretching their hard-earned dollars through our Loyalty Points Program.

Packaging Prep for Holiday Delivery

It is officially the peak holiday package delivery season (Nov. 19 to Christmas Eve) and at MRBOX we’ve made your packaging checklist and checked it twice!

Paws up for packaging & shipping supplies by MRBOXonline

This month we celebrated National Pet Day by showering belly rubs, ear scratches, and peanut butter treats on Milton, our devoted canine colleague and family member. We also remembered fondly the original “Lucky Dog,” Olan, our lab/retriever mix who inspired A&M Tape & Packaging’s Lucky Dog® Brand of packaging and shipping supplies.

Outside the Box

What do you get when you introduce a 36-year-old family-owned packaging company to the limitless potential of the World Wide Web?MrBoxOnline—a one-stop, all-inclusive packaging material distributor that has become a fast and convenient solution for wholesalers and shippers across the country.

Outside-the-box thinking for inside-the-box packaging

Corrugated cardboard boxes are among the top shipment packaging tools of choice for small and large businesses alike, and for good reason. Cardboard boxes are light, durable and inexpensive; they can be custom-cut to the sizes needed in low quantities and in most cases, are recyclable.

MRBOX Celebrates 40 Years!

1977 was quite a year. The first Apple Computer went on sale. The average cost of gas was 65 cents a gallon. A bikini cost $9. In Plantation, Florida, a young entrepreneur by the name of David Perlman became the president and owner of A&M Tape & Packaging, a wholesale distributor of cardboard boxes and other packaging and shipment supplies.

FedEx & UPS Switch to Dimensional Weight Shipping…Are You Prepared?

FedEx and UPS started the New Year (January 2015) by changing how they calculate shipping costs. Rather than evaluating the cost to ship a package using weight only, FedEx and UPS are using dimensional weight instead. Experts estimate this change could cost shippers in excess of $1 billion.

Do your part on Earth Day

Online shopping is a magical experience. Surf, scroll, click and presto! Within days a box – sometimes several – appears at your doorstep. Within that box is typically another box and additional packaging material so your new socks, widget, or ingredients for that evening’s dinner arrive in safe, cushioned comfort.

Bubble Wrap’s™ path to “pop” icon status

BUBBLE WRAP™, or bubble cushioning, wasn’t an overnight “popping” success. In fact, it took a few years for it to reach today’s “pop” icon status. Okay, no more puns, we promise.

An Earth Day Throwback, PLUS tips for recycling shipping materials

Online shopping is a magical experience. Surf, scroll, click and presto! Within days a box – sometimes several – appears at your doorstep. Within that box is typically another box and additional packaging material so your new socks, widget, or ingredients for that evening’s dinner arrive in safe, cushioned comfort.

A year of innovation leads to a year of change at MRBOXonline

2015 was the year of innovation at MRBOXonline. We listened to our customers and developed affordable and effective business solutions to meet their needs.

A Packaging Success Story: Rocking horse survives cross-country trip

Our happiest customers are our longtime customers, and they make us proud when they share their shipping success stories.