Our warehouse is 2.8 miles from Lake Mary. That makes you the closest market we serve, closer than Orlando, closer than anyone.
One point of confusion worth clearing up first: the building sits on Old Lake Mary Road, but it is just over the line in Sanford. The street carries the name, the address does not. If you have been searching for a Lake Mary fulfillment center and finding Sanford results, that is why.
Our fulfillment center is 2.8 miles from Lake Mary. Contact us to discuss receiving, storage and shipping for your business.
Practically, being this close means:
None of that changes what your customers pay or how fast they get their parcels. Carrier zones do not care about 2.8 miles. The important question is how clearly the fulfillment operation is defined and managed.
Lake Mary and Heathrow are office country. Colonial TownPark, Colonial Center, Primera: these are Class A office parks, and a good number of Central Florida's brand headquarters sit in them. What Lake Mary does not have much of is warehouse space, which is a problem if you sell physical products from an office here.
The usual sequence goes like this. You start out with product in a spare office, then the conference room, then a storage unit off Rinehart Road, then a second storage unit. At some point somebody is packing orders on a folding table and the receptionist is signing for pallets.
The alternative most people reach for is leasing a small warehouse, which means a multi-year commitment, racking, a forklift, insurance and hiring someone to run it, all sized to a volume you are guessing at.
Splitting the two is usually the better answer. Office stays where it is, inventory moves 2.8 miles up the road, and your costs scale with orders instead of with a lease you signed based on last year's forecast. You keep the short drive, so it still feels like your warehouse. You just do not own the building or employ the staff.
A few signs the transition is overdue, in roughly the order people hit them:
If two or three of those sound familiar, the maths is usually already in favour of outsourcing, and it is worth running properly rather than putting off another quarter. Send us your order volume and SKU count and we will price it against what you are spending now, including the labour you are not currently counting.
Seminole County carries 181 ecommerce businesses, and the mix here leans toward supplements, pet products, office and art supplies, and a scattering of specialty food and hardware sellers.
The full service list, how pricing is structured and what switching providers involves are on the Florida order fulfillment page. For the underlying services see third-party logistics services, shipping optimization and returns and reverse logistics.
Have questions about fulfillment for your Lake Mary business? Contact our team to discuss your requirements and request a quote.
Address, hours and directions are on the Sanford fulfillment center page, along with questions worth reviewing when evaluating a 3PL.
No, and we would rather be straight about it. The building is on Old Lake Mary Road but sits inside Sanford city limits, 2.8 miles from Lake Mary. The street name causes a fair amount of confusion. Full address is on the Sanford page.
About seven minutes.
Yes, and from Lake Mary it is almost always the cheapest option. It removes the inbound freight leg from your costs entirely, which on smaller shipments is often a surprising share of the total.
Usually the deciding factor is not order volume, it is how much of someone's week is going into packing and stock counts, and whether you are turning down orders you could otherwise take. Send us your numbers and we will price it against what you are actually spending, labour included.
That is the most common arrangement we see here. Office stays put, inventory sits 2.8 miles away, and our team handles fulfillment from there.
Yes, from the same inventory pool, including case packs and retailer-formatted paperwork.
It depends on volume, SKU count, storage footprint and any value-added work such as kitting. The four-part pricing structure is explained on the Florida page. Send us your numbers and we will come back with a rate card.
Send your order volume, SKU count and what you are spending now. We will come back with real pricing and an honest read on whether we are the right fit.
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