Corrugated boxes shipped to Tennessee
Tennessee has two shipping cities with very different trades. Memphis is a distribution and air-freight hub: Shelby County had 11,727 warehousing jobs in 2025. Middle Tennessee builds cars and parts: the state counted 38,791 motor vehicle parts jobs and 19,453 in vehicle assembly.
Who orders boxes in Tennessee
Distribution buildings in Memphis, La Vergne and Lebanon buy RSCs in every common size for e-commerce and retail. Parts plants need heavy cartons and bulk boxes, and chemical manufacturing, 27,214 jobs, adds double wall. Statewide, warehousing employed 53,427 people.
Delivery and freight
Memphis and Nashville each have their own page. Wilson County, east of Nashville, had 9,641 warehousing jobs, more than Davidson County itself.
Boxes delivered in Tennessee: ask for a price
Add the Tennessee 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 Tennessee
Memphis buildings ship around the clock, and their packaging use is steady enough that a scheduled delivery, the same mix every week or fortnight, works better than ad hoc orders. Around Chattanooga and Knoxville the trade is more industrial: carpet and flooring, appliances, auto suppliers. Those buyers ask for longer, heavier boxes, sometimes telescope builds for products that are awkward to load from the end.
Knoxville and Chattanooga add manufacturing in the east of the state, carpets around Dalton just over the Georgia line among it.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing: Dense-part cartons, partitions and bulk boxes
- Motor vehicle manufacturing: Service-part RSCs and heavy boxes between plants
- Chemical manufacturing: Double wall and bulk boxes for drums, jugs and bags
- Warehousing and storage: Stock RSC ranges, mailers and large cartons replaced by the pallet
Sources: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2025; Census ZIP Code Business Patterns, 2023.