Shipping Supplies

With Christmas just three days away, my fellow procrastinators are most likely starting to feel that holiday stress settle in. Now is the time to make those last minute dashes to the mall for forgotten gifts or to replenish your wrapping paper stash. But before getting too overwhelmed by your holiday “to-do” lists, check out these helpful holiday survival hints for those of us who haven’t been preparing since post-holiday sales last year!

Don’t delay – get gifts on their way: The last day to ship by FedEx Express for guaranteed delivery before Christmas is tomorrow, December 23. For additional deadlines to ship your gifts in time for the holidays, click here.

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Guest blogger Cordell Golden has more than 18 years of experience working for FedEx. He spends his days during the busy holiday season assisting customers with their shipping challenges and sharing his tips on perfect packing & shipping techniques.

I’ve done a lot of packing and shipping in the time I’ve been with FedEx. And call me biased, but I think it’s one of the things we do best! I’ve seen it all, too. From toys and care packages to fragile and oddly shaped items…you name it, we’ve probably packed and shipped it. This holiday season, I’m sharing some of my best packing tips with you, our readers. I’ll let you in on some of the tips and tricks from the pros so you can make sure your holiday packages arrive intact and on time.

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We’ve got less than a week until Christmas Eve! Can you believe it? Remember being a kid and waiting for what felt like years for Christmas to finally arrive? That’s not the case for me anymore. As an adult, and especially as a parent, it keeps sneaking up on me!  

In case you’re like me and need extra nudges, I wanted to remind you that tomorrow is the last day to ship your gifts by FedEx Ground to ensure they arrive on time for Christmas. This is a budget-friendly way to get your gifts there on time. But if you need more time, there’s always FedEx Express – it’ll just cost you a few more bucks to get your gifts there before Christmas (because Santa is never late, right?).

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Guest Blogger Amanda Gregory is an account executive at Ketchum, the public relations agency for FedEx Office. Once a cooking- and baking-phobe, Amanda has been slowly phasing out the pricey Manhattan bakeries and reaching for the spatula instead. And while her early experiments may come with burnt edges, the below shipping tips make sure they at least arrive at their destination crumble-free!

The holidays have managed to creep up on us yet again, and everyone has begun thinking about holiday gifts and items to send to loved ones. We’ve shared a lot of tips on how to properly pack and ship your holiday items (for a refresher, check out Kellie’s cookie mix gift swap idea and Renee’s holiday shipping tips) and last week, we put those helpful hints into action, big-time.

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What’s better than spending a rainy afternoon coloring? How about baking chocolate chip cookies? 

 

I thought both sounded pretty satisfying and came up with a way to combine the two for the ultimate Father’s Day craft project – a colorful and custom mailing tube, filled with homemade cookies!  Whether you’re shipping the cookies or just using the tube as a fun wrapper, this is definitely an affordable, fun and delicious Father’s Day gift idea that adults and kids will surely love making.

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Every year my girlfriends and I get together for a holiday cookie swap a few weeks before Christmas.  We all love how the swap gives us an excuse to get together – plus we’re guaranteed to leave with several tins filled to the brim of different treats to munch throughout the holidays. But this year everyone is just too busy to bake in time for our usual party date. So for this go-round, I had a great idea – swapping festive jars of holiday cookie mixes and recipes instead of the baked-up goodies!  While we won’t get the variety of years past, we will still get to try out few new recipes, and I can bake them when my schedule quiets down.

I put together the cute mix jars in the photo a few days ago. The cookie cutters and holiday ribbon are from my local craft store. I designed the recipe cards using a common word processing software, and printed them out on card stock at FedEx Office. ...read more

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