Order by 3:00pm and it rides the truck today.
Cutoff in 2h 14m
Skip the delivery fee at dock 4, off Richards Boulevard
Boxes singly or by the bundle, taped and on the road the same afternoon. Flat rate delivery across Sacramento County, the price drops at 25 boxes, and somebody at the counter answers the phone.
In stock today
14 boxes in stock
Every price on this page is per box, every box ships flat. Buy 25 or more and get a discount. Buy a pallet and our package handlers will quote you for freight, which lands cheaper than most people expect.
Nothing in that category today.
The Standard
SB-1612 · 32 ECT · single wall
The one most people buy. It takes a shelf of paperbacks, a crate of records or a drawer of cables, and the 32 ECT board does not care which.
The Mover
SB-1818 · 48 ECT · double wall
Double wall, rated for nine boxes high. Pay the extra dollar sixty five once and stop worrying about what is underneath.
The Wardrobe
SB-2146 · hanger bar included
Hang your clothes on the bar, close the lid, and unpack at the other end with nothing creased. It comes back out for the next move, and the one after that.
Mailer, Padded
SB-P811 · kraft, 2 in thick
Sixty five cents to send a book that still looks like a book when it lands. Cheaper than a padded envelope and it survives the trip.
The Tube
SB-T336 · 3 in bore, end caps
Three inches across and three feet long, with two end caps in the price. Posters, plans and the drawing you have been meaning to post since March.
Small Parcel
SB-1008 · 32 ECT · single wall
Small enough to miss the oversize charge and light enough to post cheap. This is our second most posted box, right behind the Standard.
Pizza Box, Unbranded
SB-1616F · kraft, no print
Ninety cents, kraft, nothing printed on it. Nobody at the counter asks what goes inside, and they stack flat on a shelf.
Box of Boxes
SB-BOB10 · 32 ECT · single wall
Ten boxes for eighteen dollars, which works out at a dollar eighty each. Buy it before the move, not on the morning of the move.
The Basement
SB-2020 · 48 ECT · double wall
Twenty inches on every side with 48 ECT walls. Label it properly, because you will not open it again for eleven years.
Gary
SB-1313G · 32 ECT · one bad corner
One misprinted corner, structure perfect, one dollar instead of three. Gary is the best value in this shop and Gary knows it.
The Tall One
SB-1220 · 48 ECT · double wall
Twelve by twelve by twenty in 48 ECT board. Vases, lamp bases and the espresso machine you refuse to leave behind.
Flat Bundle, 25
SB-1612-25 · 32 ECT · single wall
Twenty five boxes for fifty nine dollars, which is two dollars thirty six each. Strapped flat, easy in a trunk, ready for a Saturday.
Half Pallet
SB-PAL30 · 30 boxes, wrapped
Thirty boxes wrapped and banded for ninety two dollars, or three dollars seven each. Delivered on a liftgate if you have no dock.
Pallet, Gun-Wrapped
SB-PAL60 · 60 boxes, banded
Sixty boxes for one hundred and sixty four dollars, two dollars seventy three each, and we load you while you sign. Ask for Marisol.
Free, and it takes ten seconds
Three numbers and we will name the box, price it, and show you what the empty space is costing you at the counter.
Check our arithmetic
The verdict
The Standard
16 × 12 × 12 in · 32 ECT
Give us three numbers and we will hand you the box, the padding and the price.
Nobody reads this part
Two minutes well spent
Board grade decides everything about a box, and it is printed on the flap in a font nobody has ever read. Here is the whole of it in two minutes, so you buy the right grade once.
32 ECT board takes about 32 pounds per inch of edge before it crushes. A 16 × 12 × 12 has 56 inches of edge, so on paper it holds a small car. Reality has other plans, and reality is a humid week in July, a pallet stacked in a hurry, or one afternoon in a truck parked on Del Paso.
Double wall adds a second flute. That is the only difference, it is why the Mover costs a dollar sixty five more, and it is why nothing inside it ever hears about your move.
The one rule worth remembering
Buy the grade above what you think you need if the box will sit in a garage, a shed or a shipping container. The box is the cheapest part of that sentence.
| Board | Holds, honestly | For |
|---|---|---|
| 32 ECT single | Two boxes high, in a dry room | Documents, clothes, light retail |
| 48 ECT double | Nine high, and it stops asking | Moves, tools, anything stacked in a truck |
| 200 lb test | Freight, dock to dock, banded | Pallets, and everything under them |
ECT means edge crush test: pounds per inch of edge before the board folds. The 200 lb test is a burst test, an older ruler measuring the same job a different way.
From order to porch
Cutoff in 2h 14m
You orderThree boxes and a roll of tape.
We pick itStraight off the flat stack, by hand.
Same bundleEvery box in your order comes from one batch, so they match.
Taped squareCorner to corner, by hand.
On the truckOrder by 3:00pm and it rides this one.
At your doorOr waiting at dock 4 if you chose pickup.
Same day, one truck, and nobody handles your boxes twice.
Zone A
$8.40
Sacramento, Land Park, Oak Park, East Sac, Natomas
Free delivery over $75
Zone B
$14.00
Carmichael, Arden, Citrus Heights, Rancho Cordova
Weekdays only
Zone C
$22.00
Elk Grove, Folsom, Roseville, Davis
Pickup saves $22
Freight
Quoted
Pallets, wrapped and banded, loaded at your dock
Quoted same day
What people say at the counter
Four of a great many
"We ship sixty orders a week and I have not thought about boxes since March. That is the entire review."
"They talked me out of the double wall. Me. I walked in ready to spend money."
"The 3pm cutoff is real. I tested it on a Friday, rudely, at 2:58, and it beat me to Carmichael anyway."
"I asked what the 'and More' meant. The answer is more boxes. I respect a shop that commits."
Asked at the counter daily
Ask us anything except about the ampersand
About this page
Sacramento Boxes and More is not a real shop.It is a demonstration built to show what a small storefront looks like when the logistics behind it are real: live cutoffs, dimensional weight, delivery zones, a cart that knows the difference between a mailer and a pallet. Every product, price and quotation on this page is invented. The arithmetic is not.
Built by Canterlotus, a digital consultancy in Sacramento. Sites, order flow, inventory and the boring machinery underneath, for businesses that would rather own their tools than rent them.