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Updated: Thursday, 31 Mar 2011, 10:49 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 31 Mar 2011, 10:49 PM EDT
By SHELLY PALMER
MYFOXNY.COM - In a sprawling Jersey City warehouse, boxes arrive full of people's stuff. But it is a place no customer will ever visit. The idea behind storagebymail.com is take the "self" out of self-storage.
"The idea of sending things back and forth to Netflix sort of appealed to me," said Daniel Hughes, the cofounder of storagebymail.com. "So why not apply the same concept to self-storage and ship boxes back and forth in the mail to warehouses where the land is a lot cheaper?"
Hughes struck a deal with a distribution center for New York clothing retailers for them to receive and send back on-demand boxes via the U.S. Postal Service.
"We're buying excess capacity, and we're able to buy it a really low cost," Hughes said.
The most popular plan costs $49 per month and gets you 10 boxes of storage.
"You can also ship really large boxes, as long as the post office will ship it," he said.
The plans include free shipping, both directions, up to $25 per box. You just click "request return" and it ships back the next day to whatever address you give.
In addition to short-on-space urbanites, storage by mail also attracts members of the U.S. military.
"We've been serving customers from literally every major military base in the world," Hughes said.
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