{"id":5558,"date":"2024-09-02T20:09:58","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T20:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=5558"},"modified":"2025-03-25T20:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:21:46","slug":"microcosm-launches-custom-shipping-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/microcosm-launches-custom-shipping-boxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Microcosm launches custom shipping boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microcosm has created its own custom shipping boxes, featuring a spoof of a certain Seattle-based company’s logo and images of several employees\u2019 cats, produced by International Paper<\/a> based in Memphis, Tennessee. Microcosm regularly receives feedback from its bookstore customers praising its warehouse shippers\u2019 packing skills, so it only seemed right to get boxes to match their acumen\u2014and to express Microcosm\u2019s cheeky and fiercely independent ethos anywhere its books are sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cleveland warehouse manager Drew shares the new boxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Microcosm boxes and Dr. Faith titles seen at Fabulosa Books on CBS News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you even glimpsed our new boxes (and a few of our titles!) in the recent CBS Weekend News piece<\/a> on fighting book bans, featuring the amazing Fabulosa Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Microcosm founder Joe Biel, \u201cWe created custom boxes, and the paper plant we\u2019d been working with in Oregon refused to print our anti-Amazon artwork. Our number one customer complaint was our use of boxes from ULINE\u2014a company that doesn\u2019t align with our values anyway\u2014so we switched to custom boxes that are of a superior quality in celebration of how many booksellers praise our warehouse employees’ box-packing superpowers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthur (bowtie) is the kitten of Drew, our Cleveland warehouse manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Walter (tuxedo) is the colleague of a former employee who posted a picture of him in that funny position on our Slack, which got more comments than any other post on our company Slack and became an emoji, a meme, and even an enamel pin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biel and Microcosm vice president Elly Blue discuss the decision making, design, and Oregon vs. Ohio politics behind the new boxes in this recent episode<\/a> of Microcosm’s People’s Guide to Publishing podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microcosm has created its own custom shipping boxes, featuring a spoof of a certain Seattle-based company’s logo and images of several employees\u2019 cats, produced by International Paper based in Memphis, Tennessee. Microcosm regularly receives feedback from its bookstore customers praising its warehouse shippers\u2019 packing skills, so it only seemed right to get boxes to match… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[14,252,12,266],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-in-the-news","tag-books","tag-boxes","tag-business-of-publishing","tag-warehouse"],"my_excerpt":"\n

Microcosm has created its own custom shipping boxes, featuring a spoof of a certain Seattle-based company's logo and images of several employees\u2019 cats, produced by International Paper<\/a> based in Memphis, Tennessee. Microcosm regularly receives feedback from its bookstore customers praising its warehouse shippers\u2019 packing skills, so it only seemed right to get boxes to match their acumen\u2014and to express Microcosm\u2019s cheeky and fiercely independent ethos anywhere its books are sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"\"
Cleveland warehouse manager Drew shares the new boxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n
Microcosm boxes and Dr. Faith titles seen at Fabulosa Books on CBS News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you even glimpsed our new boxes (and a few of our titles!) in the recent CBS Weekend News piece<\/a> on fighting book bans, featuring the amazing Fabulosa Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Microcosm founder Joe Biel, \u201cWe created custom boxes, and the paper plant we\u2019d been working with in Oregon refused to print our anti-Amazon artwork. Our number one customer complaint was our use of boxes from ULINE\u2014a company that doesn\u2019t align with our values anyway\u2014so we switched to custom boxes that are of a superior quality in celebration of how many booksellers praise our warehouse employees' box-packing superpowers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthur (bowtie) is the kitten of Drew, our Cleveland warehouse manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Walter (tuxedo) is the colleague of a former employee who posted a picture of him in that funny position on our Slack, which got more comments than any other post on our company Slack and became an emoji, a meme, and even an enamel pin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biel and Microcosm vice president Elly Blue discuss the decision making, design, and Oregon vs. Ohio politics behind the new boxes in this recent episode<\/a> of Microcosm's People's Guide to Publishing podcast.<\/p>\n","my_excerpt_rendered":"\n

Microcosm has created its own custom shipping boxes, featuring a spoof of a certain Seattle-based company’s logo and images of several employees\u2019 cats, produced by International Paper<\/a> based in Memphis, Tennessee. Microcosm regularly receives feedback from its bookstore customers praising its warehouse shippers\u2019 packing skills, so it only seemed right to get boxes to match their acumen\u2014and to express Microcosm\u2019s cheeky and fiercely independent ethos anywhere its books are sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"\"
Cleveland warehouse manager Drew shares the new boxes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n
Microcosm boxes and Dr. Faith titles seen at Fabulosa Books on CBS News.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Maybe you even glimpsed our new boxes (and a few of our titles!) in the recent CBS Weekend News piece<\/a> on fighting book bans, featuring the amazing Fabulosa Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Says Microcosm founder Joe Biel, \u201cWe created custom boxes, and the paper plant we\u2019d been working with in Oregon refused to print our anti-Amazon artwork. Our number one customer complaint was our use of boxes from ULINE\u2014a company that doesn\u2019t align with our values anyway\u2014so we switched to custom boxes that are of a superior quality in celebration of how many booksellers praise our warehouse employees’ box-packing superpowers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arthur (bowtie) is the kitten of Drew, our Cleveland warehouse manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Walter (tuxedo) is the colleague of a former employee who posted a picture of him in that funny position on our Slack, which got more comments than any other post on our company Slack and became an emoji, a meme, and even an enamel pin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biel and Microcosm vice president Elly Blue discuss the decision making, design, and Oregon vs. Ohio politics behind the new boxes in this recent episode<\/a> of Microcosm’s People’s Guide to Publishing podcast.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microcosmpublishing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}