Corrugated boxes shipped to Massachusetts
Refrigerated warehousing is more concentrated in Massachusetts than almost anywhere, 1.9 times the national share of jobs, with 3,299 people in 2025. Pharmaceutical manufacturing employed 10,179, and food manufacturing 29,036.
Who orders boxes in Massachusetts
Seafood and frozen food packers need cases built for cold rooms. Biotech and pharmaceutical makers need plain shipping cases. Warehousing, 20,695 jobs, is spread across Essex, Worcester and Bristol counties.
Delivery and freight
Massachusetts deliveries often go to older buildings with tight docks; tell us if a smaller truck is needed.
Boxes delivered in Massachusetts: ask for a price
Add the Massachusetts ZIP the boxes go to, the inside size, grade and count. Freight is part of the quote.
- Inside size
- length x width x depth, in inches
- Style
- RSC, full overlap, telescope, die-cut or bulk
- Wall and grade
- read it off the stamp on your current box
- Count
- boxes per order, and how often you reorder
- Packed weight
- box plus contents
- ZIP
- where the boxes are delivered
After you send it
- We reply by email, usually with questions first if anything is unclear
- You confirm the specification, and a sample or drawing if it is a new design
- We send the price, the delivery window and the count tolerance
- On approval the order is scheduled and shipped to your dock
Worth knowing in Massachusetts
The seafood trade around New Bedford and Gloucester packs fish and shellfish in wet, cold conditions where ordinary board fails fast, and some shippers use waxed cases. Elsewhere in the state, life sciences and medical device makers want clean, consistent cartons and exact repeat specifications, and many Boston-area e-commerce brands ship apparel and books in die-cut mailers.
Worcester County's position on the Mass Pike and I-495 makes it the state's distribution centre, while Springfield and the Pioneer Valley have older manufacturing: paper products, firearms, and plastics. Cape Cod and the islands are a small but seasonal market for gift and food shippers.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Refrigerated warehousing: Cases that keep their strength in coolers and freezers
- Food manufacturing: Shipping cases sized to the product and the palletizer
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.