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Great
News! 
This January, Store
to Door purchased Collegeboxes, a student storage business based in
Boston,
Massachusetts. This is a
terrific opportunity for Store to Door because of the synergy between the
two companies.
"Purchasing Collegeboxes
is a natural fit for our business," says Jim Wayman, CEO and
founder of Store to Door. "We are providers of mobile
storage, and Collegeboxes uses companies like Store to Door on over 60
campuses coast to coast. We have been a vendor of Collegeboxes for
years and are excited about the opportunities that this new partnership
holds for Store to Door. |
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 "The purchase of
Collegeboxes for Store to Door makes great sense. Collegeboxes will
retain its own identity, systems and operations but will have access to an
entire cadre of facilities and services available from Store to
Door." Earlier in his career, Wayman was a founder of Paychex
and Safesite Records Management Corp, (now
Iron
Mountain).
He is a seasoned entrepreneur with an eye toward business growth and
solid operational success.
"The logistics of picking
up 10,000 college students' belongings, at the same time of year and
delivering them back at the same time while making sure all items are
accounted for is a tall order," says Wayman. "To improve
the operations of this process, Collegeboxes will use Store to Door's
proprietary bar coding system, developed and successfully used by
Store to Door for over 10 years. |
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 The bar coding system will be used
to create an online, date and time stamped tracking system for
Collegeboxes. In addition, Collegeboxes will be adding text
messaging and an email communication system to notify and communicate
with students and their parents. "As a parent of a college
student, I know first hand how hard it is to get everything delivered to
school that first time. If you don't live within 100 miles or so,
driving is out of the question. I know that because I made the
mistake of driving my oldest to school and it was a real nightmare,"
Wayman continues.
John Barrett of
Bedford,
Massachusetts,
whose son goes to
Georgetown
University, says he
is planning on using Collegeboxes for the first time this year.
"I can't imagine driving 10 hours to the school in May, packing
up his dorm room into our car, and driving all that stuff back
here only to drive it back down in September," says Barrett.
"Not only that, but the room is in a four-story walk-up." |
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The Starter Kit
Collegeboxes will now offer all
customers an initial Starter Kit. At the beginning of the storage
process, each student receives a Starter Kit, ordered via the
Internet. Two days later UPS delivers five new medium size boxes,
label holders, markers, tape and a video showing students how to build their
own boxes. This service is more convenient than Collgeboxes'
previous process, which required the students to go to a central location
on campus to pickup their supplies. So if your student needs
storage, go to collegeboxes.com and
see the list of schools we service. We will be on campuses in force
this spring! |
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Ship to School and Semester
Abroad Programs
Aside from summer storage,
Collegeboxes has expanded to offer several additional unique services
tailored to students. Ship to School and Ship
to Home at the end of the semester are
becoming more and more popular with students and parents.
Collegeboxes offers door to door service, saving the time and hassle
students and their parents have of lugging boxes that often weigh 50
pounds or more to shipping and postage stores. In addition,
Collegeboxes will expand its Semester Abroad Program, allowing
students to store their belongings while they are away, with the ease and
convenience of immediate delivery upon their return to school. |
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