Boxes!

[juliet]

Can anyone suggest where we might be able to acquire boxes, of a variety suitable for Moving Things In? We have some solid plastic ones already; we're after cardboard now (disposable or in some other way temporary).

I have already thought of asking Unwins, or the Red Square. Other suggestions welcome...

Edit: I forgot to mention the other constraints: that we have basically no free time between now and Saturday (which is when we move) - so local shops are doable but further afield not so much; and that we have no form of transport until the actual moving date so things need to be public-transport-friendly. I am leaning towards putting in an order with Viking for flat-pack cardboard boxes, which is environmentally bad but I can't work out the logistics of any other options :-( (though I will haul home as many boxes as I can from work - we have several paper-boxes).

Comments

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

We used The Big Yellow, who do a very reliable next-day delivery service. The boxes are so durable that some of them have passed through several hands and are still being used for friends' moves three years later, if that's of any reassurance on the environmental front.

[mstevens.livejournal.com]

I've had good results with bigyellow boxes too (and been paying them far too much money for ages to store stuff because I'm too disorganised to retrieve it :( but you can't blame that on them). Google suggests there are many companies who will ship you boxes for suitably extortionate fees, I've used one of those as well, but I forget which.