For those who are considering shipping pallets rather and boxes via Fedex etc these are important considerations being discussed in this thread.

In my case I have one dock in town with no ramp for the forklift to come down to the parking lot to lift a pallet off my pick up truck. So I have to build the pallet on the dock lifting the small boxes onto the dock by hand.

I could pay for lift gate service where I would have to build the pallet in the street in front of my house



In the past I have been able to use a dock and forklift that a friend has at his business but its located over an hour away. Shipping can be stressful for me. Mike