Box supply for Memphis shippers
Memphis is a distribution city. Warehousing was 5.3 percent of all private jobs in the metro in 2025, 3.7 times the national share, with 27,742 jobs split almost evenly between Shelby County and DeSoto County across the Mississippi line.
What Memphis buyers order
Fulfilment and retail distribution buildings want stock RSCs in every common size, mailers and large boxes. Food manufacturing, 5,686 jobs, adds cases.
Where the warehouses are
ZIP 38118 near the airport has the most warehousing establishments, then Olive Branch and Southaven in Mississippi, and 38141 and 38109 in Memphis.
Boxes for Memphis: ask for a price
Give the delivery ZIP, each inside size with its grade and count, and any receiving window or dock limit.
- 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 Memphis
Memphis is built around overnight freight. Its air hub sorts parcels through the night, and many distribution buildings nearby are set up to ship late orders the same day. That rhythm makes packaging stockouts very costly. Steady, scheduled deliveries of a set carton mix, sized to the week's volume with a margin for peaks, are what most buyers here want.
The metro spreads into Mississippi and Arkansas, and DeSoto County, Mississippi, south of the state line, holds large distribution parks of its own; give the ZIP so the freight is priced right.
Five Class I railroads also serve Memphis, beside a busy Mississippi River port.
We quote delivery to every ZIP in all 9 counties of the Memphis metro area, among them Crittenden, Benton, DeSoto and Marshall, not only the warehouse districts. The ZIPs with the most warehouses are 38118 Memphis, 38654 Olive Branch, 38141 Memphis, 38671 Southaven and 38109 Memphis, and the most warehousing jobs are in Shelby, DeSoto and Marshall counties.
Trades here and the boxes they order
- Warehousing and storage: Stock RSC ranges, mailers and large cartons replaced by the pallet
- 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.