Pak Mail Northland Drive recently shipped these glass framed pictures came into the store this past week. They remind us of two great American traditions. The first one says it right in the corner of the painting CELEBRATING THE MAGNIFICENCE OF AMERICAN WILDLIFE! There are so many beautiful animals in America but this one of course highlights birds. We don’t often stop, slow down and take in some of the beauty in the birds all around us. An American Tradition of bird watching. This time of year in Michigan we don’t see a ton of birds out and it makes us appreciate them in the Spring when they all come out again and fill the air with their chirps and sounds along with their amazing abilities to fly! Truly remarkable!
The other painting is I believe an American tradition of going to the Ice Cream Shop for something yummy! We all can’t wait for the days of summer when it is sunny, warm and our mouths water for a wonderful ice cream creation from one of the many ice cream shops in beautiful Michigan.
We ship a lot of cowboy boots, saddles and everything else you can imagine from the RANCH!!!
Whether you sell them, give them as gifts or send them to a friend or family member, bring yur boots down to our neck of the woods we will “git r dun” for ya!!
Here is what happens when New Years Eve falls on a Monday and UPS doesn’t pickup at our stores. So we have packages at our Northland store from Friday night, Saturday, Monday and Weds. Not good! We have an enormous number of ground packages to go out! Roughly 450 packages waiting for UPS. That doesn’t include all our USPS and Fedex that were here as well. However they picked up on Monday so only the normal day for those.
One of our customers in the Rockford, MI area came to us to ship these pieces of art that they won in a silent auction. These were being shipped to family, we believe unannounced. Whomever receives these will have some nice color added to their walls real soon!
You know sometimes being a FEDEX driver is a pretty thankless job. They show up to your house, drop the package and scoot back to their trucks quickly to get to the hundred other packages that are in their trucks and the hundreds they have to pickup along the way as well. We love this video that secretly caught a FedEx driver going out of his way to not only serve a customer without them knowing it, but did it in epic fashion as he neatly folds up the goods for safe keeping. Amazing! These guys and gals are pretty amazing! We never fail to realize how amazing it is that these people can pickup a package at our stores around 4:30/5pm and have it sitting on the doorstep of a person in San Diego, California by 10am the next morning???!!! Just think about all that has to happen throughout the night to make that happen. It is incredible! So it makes this video even more awesome when you think about all these drivers need to accomplish each day but some still make time to help people with things that have nothing to do with FedEx.
We thank you in advance FEDEX for all that you will do this season to get our packages to us or whoever we ship them to before Christmas! We appreciate your hard work and dedicated service in shipping!
If you have holiday packages you want shipped FedEx or any other carrier. Just bring them to Pak Mail Northland Drive and we got you covered.
We work with a relocation company called Home Sweet Home to help people who are moving. We are contracted to come and take all the “dump and donate” items. Usually the moving company has already been through and taken all their furniture and personal items. We then come and take what is left. I like to say we are often the last train out of their house so whatever they need gone we take it with us and help get rid of it.
We showed up to a house in Whitehall recently and they were actually prepping to sell their house so the moving company had not been there yet. They were very motivated to get rid of stuff. We filled the trailer with an entire load of donation items which is very common. We dropped them at Goodwill and Habitat for Humanity’s Restore. Then we returned to their house for round two. To our surprise this family filled our trailer top to bottom and front to back with stuff that needed to go to the dump. It was wild! I have never hauled so much junk in one trip. We went to the Coopersville dump on our way back and pitched all that trash. The dump told us it was 2,620 lbs we unloaded. Wow!!!!
For those of you who didn’t know, Pak Mail offers specialty delivery services. We did a HUGE awesome delivery today for Western Michigan University at The Oaklands – their on campus bed and breakfast for special guests of the university, the president or other honored guests. They also rent it out for various things as well. Beautiful old mansion and rich with history on campus. The presidents used to live there years ago.
They did a huge reset with furniture, paintings, rugs, etc. we picked up 37 items from our partner consignment shops WINDSOR COTTAGE CHERRY and WINDSOR COTTAGE THORNAPPLE and delivered them in a very specific time-frame to reset between their guest stays. We arrived at 9am and had to be cleaned up and out by 130pm as we reset a ton of their rooms. It was an honor to be a part of it and marvel at the historical rooms, decorations, and original trim and unique designs of the rooms and spaces.
Pak Mail Northland Drive recently packed this very unique lifelike sculpture of three women. This one presented a challenge due to it’s awkward shape. But as always, Pak Mail rises to the occasion and gets the job done.
