Keep your mail and packages secure from porch pirates

The holidays are behind us. Did your mail and packages arrive at your home safely? Yes… excellent. No… consider the following:

Pak Mail Private Mailbox

• Does your neighborhood have unlocked curbside mailboxes?
• Are packages left unattended on your porch while you’re at work?

Pak Mail offers a simple solution to thwart porch pirates – rent a private mailbox. Pak Mail sends email notifications when packages are received.

For a small additional monthly fee, you can save a trip and call ahead to see if you have any mail.

Commemorate 2017 and Welcome 2018

Thank you to our customers – both “old” and new – as we continue to thrive. Our 2017 was a year of growth and change.

• Customers can attest to the number of large freight shipments we did in 2017.
  It’s amazing the shipping challenges that come through our front door.
  

  Dad – Everett Minck 1925-2017

• My Dad quietly left this world in March saying, “I’m ready to fly.” His gentle entrepreneurial spirit lives on.
• Jesse completed an 18-month course in medical equipment technology in August. He moved on to a full-time position repairing high-tech equipment. He continues to work part-time at Pak Mail on most Saturdays and a few afternoons.
• Stop by and meet our new employee Shane – not related, but treated like family.
• Albertsons became Safeway. Pak Mail is still two doors north and has been since 1996. Ten years of ownership is fast approaching at the end of February.

We appreciate our customers! Pak Mail ships small packages and documents with UPS, FedEx, DHL, or USPS; rents private mailboxes for personal and business use; builds custom boxes, crates, and pallets; packs and ships large items with LTL, air, and ocean freight carriers; and provides basic office services.

Thank you!

Tip on how to opt out of weekend delivery

The holidays are rapidly approaching. Tinsel and twinkling lights abound — started in late summer. Our thoughts turn to gift giving. Shopping on the internet from home increases by leaps and bounds. Online merchants don’t always help you choose a secure delivery location for packages. Some, like Amazon, have weekend delivery set as the default. This includes instructions from Amazon to the US Postal Service to leave packages unattended outside a closed business.

Pak Mail discovered this delivery practice and developed a tip sheet to opt out of weekend delivery. Check your delivery options carefully when placing an online order.

Amazon USPS package

Grateful for Packing and Shipping

Last year provided quite a ride and lots of reasons to be grateful.

• My four siblings and I transitioned our elderly parents from their home to assisted living. Both Mom and Dad are still enjoying each other’s company after 64 years of marriage.
• 

  Senior downsizing done with love.

  The box truck we acquired in Spring 2015 blew its engine within the first month. Our mechanic replaced the engine and had it running like new in no time. The lift gate makes the large freight jobs easy!

• New paint and furnishings freshened up the retail area of our store. Customers provide lots of fun comments and kudos.
• Our Pak Mail franchise is now part of a larger franchise — Annex Brands.
• Pak Mail 232 has been in the same location since 1996! We will celebrate nine years of ownership at the end of February 2017.

Thank you to our customers! Some customers have been with us “forever,” some joined us recently, and some are yet to require our services. Whether it’s a private mailbox and a safe place to receive packages, notary services, a small gift shipping to Aunt Millie, documents shipping overnight, a custom box with protective packaging, or a large shipment requiring a pallet, rely on Pak Mail.

Thank you!

Pak Mail offers shipping with FedEx, UPS, DHL, USPS postal, and large freight carriers.

Lift gate is used for large freight and estate pickups.

Pak Mail private mailbox offers safe and secure package receiving.

A small move shipment ready for pickup by freight carrier.

Secure Package Receiving

It’s that time of year again! Along with the increase in holiday online shopping comes package receiving and the potential for porch theft. Don’t let your Christmas gifts sit at your front door tempting fate. Open a private mailbox and pick up your packages at our secure location. The benefits of renting a mailbox include:

• A physical Colorado Springs address with unique box number.
  

  Pak Mail Private Mailbox

• Secure package receiving from UPS, FedEx, DHL, OnTrac, and USPS.
• Email notification of package receipt.
• Best value ($144) on a 12-month rental of a medium-sized mailbox.
• Convenient business hours, Monday thru Saturday.

Click here or stop in to learn more about renting a mailbox at Pak Mail.