18 Apr
How To Ship Your T-Shirts
Sending in your t-shirts is easier than blinking! Don't believe me? Check this out!
I’ll admit that I’ve never had to ship multiple t-shirts in the mail. It’s shocking, right? I mean, I’ve shipped cupcakes, unicorns, and glitter, but never t-shirts! Equipped with a few materials, a shirt tons of shirts, and the help of my friendly USPS representative, Ethel; the process proved to be fun and exciting! In case you didn’t know how ridiculously easy it is to send shirts, take a look at this easy step-by-step process!
On your mark… get set… gather those shirts!
Don’t pretend like you don’t have any t-shirts that you’re not wearing. I mean, seriously… we all have t-shirts, right? We’re looking for gently used t-shirts sans pit/food stains. If you have to ask, “I wonder if this shirt is okay,” then it probably isn’t. We’re looking for t-shirts of all sizes, so dig in those closets and show us what you got.
Rain or shine, the postal service has got you covered!
There are a number of ways to ship your package to Colorado. I chose my local postal service because it was the most convenient for me. If you’re wondering what you’re looking at paying for shipment, here’s the breakdown:
ONE SHIRT
1 t-shirt weighs approximately 0.5 ounces. Depending on the shirt size, this will fluctuate by a few ounces, but it will not drastically change the price. You can place one shirt in a large manila envelope, and the shipping costs will be around $0.88! That’s cheap, right?
THIRTY SHIRTS
For those of you that are rockstars, you’ll be sending 30+ shirts for 1MillionShirts. I recently sent 30 t-shirts to the warehouse in Colorado in an old box I found around my house. The package weighed in at just under 13 lbs., and postage totaled $17.40. Since I’d like to know that my package has arrived, I added the $0.80 delivery confirmation. My grand total for shipping 30 shirts was $18.20.
I chose the USPS because it was convenient for me, but don’t forget that you can use FedEx and UPS. Whichever method you choose, you’ll be contributing to a great cause! Oh yeah… don’t forget to include $1 to help us with shipping costs once we send everything to Africa.
Give yourself a pat on the back!
Feel free to let us know when you’ve sent a shipment of shirts! As we receive shirts, we’ll be updating our t-shirt count so everyone can see the progress. Once you’ve sent us some shirts, go ahead and give yourself a pat on the back for a job well done. You deserve it!Stephen
Comments
How about those flat rate boxes, could probably roll 5 of them in there.
so WHERE in colorado do we send them?
Brad, good call!
Me, click “send your shirt” on the right side of the page. :-)
If you really think that clothing is indeed the problem:
There’s an environmental impact for producing shirts. There’s also an environmental impact for shipping shirts.
Much of Africa’s local clothes production has been seriously undermined by clothes donations. Why produce anything new locally if some well-meaning charity will dump clothes for free? Not producing locally also means no jobs, and no income.
There are also many, many second-hand clothes markets. By shipping your leftovers, you also undermine those traders.
Save yourself the money for flying shirts to African countries, and give the cash to someone to buy shirts in the local market. At least that gives some revenue to a local trader.
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