We do not have a warehouse in Port St. Lucie. Ours is in Sanford, 142 road miles north, and everything ships from there: receiving, storage, pick and pack, kitting and returns, from our Sanford fulfillment center.
Port St. Lucie is also, as it happens, roughly where the answer to this whole question changes. Go north from here and a Central Florida warehouse is the nearer one. Go south and it stops being. You are sitting on the line, so this page is mostly about which side of it your business actually falls on.
What you hand over is the physical work and the worrying that goes with it. Pallets come in and get checked against what you said was coming. Everything gets a home it keeps, so a count in March still means something in September. Your storefront feeds us orders directly, we pick and box each one to rules you wrote down, and the parcel leaves on whatever carrier prices it best that morning. Kits get assembled here. What comes back gets inspected and put where you told us to put it. The Florida order fulfillment page covers the service list, the switching sequence and how pricing is built.
Every location page on this site is a version of one question: is a warehouse in the middle of the state closer to your customers than a warehouse near you. Along the east coast the answer is yes for a long way, and then it stops.
From Melbourne, eighty-four miles from our dock, we are comfortably the nearer origin. From Port St. Lucie we are a hundred and forty-two and a West Palm Beach provider is forty-nine. That is where it flips, and it flips near enough exactly here.
Which does not settle it, because distance from you is the least important number in the calculation. What decides it is where your orders go. A parcel is priced and scheduled on how far it travels from the shelf to the buyer, not from the shelf to your desk. So:
That breakdown is the whole conversation, and it takes about five minutes to export. Send us last quarter's destination ZIPs and your monthly order count, and we will tell you which side of the line you are on. Including when it is not ours.
Two hours forty each way, a shade shorter than the run up to Daytona Beach.
Where you are on this stretch moves the number. Fort Pierce, up the road in the same county, is 131 miles. Vero Beach is 120 and Stuart is 152.
Road distances and drive times calculated with OSRM at free-flow speeds, from our verified dock coordinates and from Port St. Lucie City Hall, the same method used on every location page on this site. Real times run longer, so treat the minutes as a floor and the miles as the hard number. The route is a short tolled stretch of Florida's Turnpike, then I-95 for about seventy-five miles, then the Beachline and SR 417, signed first as the GreeneWay and then as the Seminole Expressway. All of those charge tolls; the I-95 stretch does not.
Worth flagging because it changes the setup rather than the geography. Wholesale orders are cases on a pallet going to a receiving dock with rules attached, and direct orders are singles going to a doorstep. Same stock, different job.
The part that costs real money is the retailer routing guide: how cartons are labeled, what advance shipping notice they expect and in what format, which carrier they want used, what appointment window the delivery has to hit. Miss any of it and the penalty is a chargeback deducted from your invoice, often months later. Four questions to put to any provider, us included, before anything ships: which of my retailers' guides have you worked to, what do you need from me to set a new one up, who checks a shipment against the guide before it leaves, and who investigates when a deduction lands.
Get those in writing. How wholesale and direct run off one pool of stock is worked through properly on our Winter Park page, which is where that argument lives.
Two hours forty each way is a real day, so factor that travel time into your fulfillment provider decision. Ask how the operation handles peak-season volume and December exceptions.
We are open weekdays, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Call (800) 674-3441 to discuss your fulfillment needs. Directions and the rest of what is worth asking are on the Sanford page. The service this sits inside is contract warehousing and fulfillment, and the order workflow and the platforms we connect to are worth a look before you call.
No, and there is only one anywhere: Sanford, 142 road miles up the coast. Our exact address and the way in are set out on the Sanford page.
Often you would not, and that is the honest answer for most businesses on this stretch. It only tips our way when your orders travel north or west rather than south, because a parcel is priced on how far it goes from the shelf to the buyer. Send a ZIP breakdown and we will work out which of those you are rather than assert one.
A chargeback is a deduction the retailer takes off your invoice when a shipment misses something in their routing guide: a wrong or missing label, an advance shipping notice that did not arrive or did not parse, a delivery outside the appointment window, a pallet built taller than the guide allows. It shows up on a remittance, often months after the shipment, and it lands on you rather than on your provider unless the contract says otherwise. That last clause is the one to settle in writing before anything ships, with us and with anyone else you are considering.
Only if it is a surprise. Tell us roughly when purchase orders tend to land and how big they get, and it becomes a scheduling question rather than a scramble. Lumpy is fine. Lumpy and unannounced is not.
Mostly at the top end. The Beachline charges, and so does SR 417, which is signed as the GreeneWay and then as the Seminole Expressway, the same road under two names. The few miles of Florida's Turnpike at your end are tolled as well. I-95 for the long middle stretch is free. A toll-free way round exists and costs more in time than the tolls cost in money.
Some will, some will not, and which is which is a question for your carrier rather than for us. Shifting the shelf changes every destination by a different amount. Give us last quarter's destination ZIPs and we will put the real chart for both origins side by side. Anyone giving you a blanket answer to this has not looked.
Four lines and no software subscription hiding behind them: stock in, stock held, order picked and boxed, parcel moved. The Florida page sets out all four.
Two things settle it: your monthly order count and a ZIP-code breakdown of where last quarter's orders went. That second one matters more here than anywhere else we serve, because you are sitting on the line where the answer changes. If it points south, we will say so.
