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Uncle Marty’s will be closed on Monday, September 3rd, for Labor Day. DHL, FedEx, and the USPS will also pause domestic operations on the holiday.

Whaaat? Lower!? Yes, lower! Here’s the skinny: FedEx recently announced a change in the way they calculate dimensional weight. (Dimensional weight is the minimum chargeable weight of a shipment based on the size of the container.) For the past few years, they’ve used the following formula to calculate dimensional weight for both ground and air […]

Summer storage season is in full swing! We’ve broken records again this year and are so grateful to you for trusting us with your precious items. Many of you have already received your items back, whether you arranged to pick them up at our shop, we delivered them locally, or we shipped them to you […]

Uncle Marty’s will be closed on Wednesday, July 4th, in observance of Independence Day. DHL, FedEx, and USPS have no domestic operations on the holiday. See you Thursday!

You’ve seen them on Shark Tank. And now you’ll see them at Uncle Marty’s! We’re honored to now carry Lovepop greeting cards: fantastic, 3D pop-up cards that are sure to delight! The detail in Lovepop is extraordinary … truly more of a whole gift than just a greeting card. Marty was recently in Orlando attending […]

We’ll be open extended hours this weekend to help all of the Cornell grads ship out! Friday, 5/25: 9-6 Saturday, 5/26: 10-5 Sunday, 5/27: 12-5 (Graduation Day) Monday, 5/28: 9-6 (Memorial Day) Tuesday, 5/29: 9-6 We have 50+ sizes of boxes in stock and shipping options via DHL, USPS, FedEx Ground, FedEx Home Delivery, and […]

We are your end-of-semester move-out headquarters! BOXES We stock over 50 sizes of boxes all year long, but in May we feature giant stacks of four special move-out sizes: Small (18x12x12, $2.99) Medium (18x18x18, $4.99) Large (24x18x18, $6.99) Extra Large (28x18x18 or 22x22x18, double weight cardboard, $9.99) We sell tons of boxes this time of […]

Dear Clients, We’ve just received communication from our partners at FedEx that valid government-issued photo ID will now be required for shipments processed at FedEx Authorized ShipCenters. The address we keep on file for you must match the address on your ID. We understand this will be an extra step, though we are glad that […]

If you’ve been to Uncle Marty’s in the last few days, you’ve notice that we’ve been busy making some big changes! Over spring break, we hauled around all of our counters and fixtures to rearrange our layout … again. (We tend to do this every year or two. You know, to keep things fresh.) With […]

Due to a death in the family, Uncle Marty’s will be closed on Tuesday, April 10th. We apologize for any inconvenience. We hope to be back to our normal schedule on Wednesday.