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Our recommendation for shipping depends on how often you ship, your supplies, and how complex your needs. Work in progress - more coming soon! If you very rarely ship, and don't keep any shipping supplies • Go in person to USPS (the post office) for small and relatively light things, and a UPS Store for larger or heavier. • There can be a huge difference in prices as you get large or heavy. • Fedex is almost always more expensive than UPS. • If you are shipping an original - consider using UPS Store, or other shipping store, service to package the item. • If you are in the Bay-Waveland area, S&L Office (https://www.snloffice.com/shipping)has a lot of sizes of boxes and reasonable UPS rates. If you can get it packaged yourself, you can also have us ship it for you and charge your account. If you ship occasionally • Order some free Priority Mail 1095 boxes (https://store.usps.com/store/product/shipping-supplies/priority-mail-box-1095-P_O_1095)- these will cover artworks and prints up to 11" x 14" and will usually cost you about $8.50 to ship. • Get some Avery 18126 shipping labels,(https://amzn.to/3S84Uea) kraft paper,(https://amzn.to/40UeBRn) and bubble wrap.(https://amzn.to/3Xz1ceE) • For larger prints, ship rolled in a 3" diameter tube(https://amzn.to/3Kuslwv) • Use Shippo (https://goshippo.com/)or Pirate Ship (https://www.pirateship.com/)for making labels. This will save you a ton of time and money compared to standing in line to pay for retail labels. • Most post offices and UPS drop off locations have a counter where you can just leave pre-labeled outgoing packages, so you don't have to stand in line. •

We sometimes get asked "where do you get your ____ that you use in your shop?" and while the answer is usually "it depends on supply chain availability and pricing" we have a mostly up-to-date list of our suppliers here: https://www.bslprints.com/our-suppliers We are pretty open about our suppliers, methods, tools, etc. Let us know if you have any questions!

This is still super early and kind of a test - but this is going to be tied into the new system that we are custom-developing. Our clients will have one login to access their client portal, forums, their order history, their appointments, and everything else. Building out that whole thing is a work in progress that is estimated to take about a year (which probably means 18-24 months) but we can go ahead and start using the pieces that are ready - like this forum! Please provide any feedback you have about how this forum works for you, and if you think it could be of interest, and what you want to see - by commenting below <3