Let us be clear about the geography first, because plenty of packaging sites are not. iBox Factory has two plants, West Chicago in the US and Guangzhou in China, and a head office in Casa Grande, Arizona. There is no New York facility, no New York warehouse, and no local pickup. What we do is make boxes and ship them to New York, with US shipping included in the price.
What delivery to New York looks like
Production is quoted per product, and delivery time sits on top of it. On the standard lane, production runs from about 7 business days plus 2 to 5 days for delivery. The rush lane pairs expedited production with air freight for a premium of about 7 to 25% depending on the job. The cost saver lane moves by sea and is the cheapest and slowest of the three. Ask for the lane and the date in writing on your quote rather than working from a general promise.
Practical notes for city addresses
- Receiving hours. If your building restricts deliveries to certain hours or requires a certificate of insurance from the carrier, tell us at order stage, not at dispatch.
- No dock, no forklift. Many New York addresses take parcels but not pallets. Say which one you can receive and the shipment gets planned accordingly.
- Storage is the real constraint. Boxes arrive flat, which saves a lot of space, but a large order still occupies floor area you may be paying a premium for.
- Split deliveries. If you have volume but nowhere to put it, ask about staging the shipment rather than taking it all at once.
Why a low minimum matters more here
In a market where storage costs what it does in New York, ordering a year of packaging in one go is not obviously the saving it appears to be. The 100 box minimum lets a bakery, a studio, a boutique or an online seller order what fits the stockroom and reorder when it runs down. Because the die and the plates are included and stay with your spec, a repeat run does not restart tooling. That is what makes reordering in smaller batches workable rather than punitive.
What New York businesses order
The full catalog is available to any US address, and the formats that come up most in dense urban retail and delivery are the ones that ship flat and assemble fast: mailers for ecommerce, folding cartons for retail shelves, bakery and takeout formats for food service, and printed sleeves that let one tray serve several products. If you are shipping parcels out of the city daily, the sizing advice on packaging for ecommerce brands will save more money than any discount, because dimensional weight is charged on every single parcel.
Ordering from New York
Minimum order is 100 boxes. Unit pricing starts from about $0.48 per unit at bulk volumes and is confirmed on your written quote. Included with every order: the die, the plates, design support, US shipping and a digital proof before anything prints. If you also ship to or from the other side of the Hudson, boxes shipped to New Jersey covers the same ground for that state.
Send your dimensions, quantity and the date you need boxes on site to our quote form, and mention any building restrictions so the delivery is planned around them.
