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Im curious, where does everyone purchase their shipping boxes to ship colubrids (or any other snake for that matter)?

I remember Bush used to sell them, but they were quite large.

Any help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Nat Turner

I haven't bought boxes but I have bought deli cups from these folks.
Superior Enterprises

Superior has great products that's for sure.

But if you are looking to save a little money by buying in bulk, buy your boxes direct from a box supplier and cut the foam inserts yourself. Styro can be obtained from any home improvement type warehouse/store. A table saw makes quick work of 1/2" styro!! Nice square cuts too, beats the heck out of a carpet knife.

Don't bother buying heavy duty 'doublewall' boxes, regular ole 200# test C flute works fine. You can get plain brown Kraft boxes or spend a little more and get 'oyster white' white boxes. The best size is approximately 15 x 11 x 7, if you go any larger then most shipping companies will hit you with 'dimensional' shipping charges. With UPS, you should strive to keep the total cubic inches of the box under 1728 if you want to use the actual weight of the box to compute shipping rates. If the box is bigger than 1728 cubic inches then you must divide the cubic size by 194 to determine what they call the 'dimensional weight' Doesn't take much to get a 10 pound box on your hands,

Anyway here is a link to some boxes...
Link to Uline's site, for the perfect shipping box