With two small children, an educational consulting business, and lots of volunteer obligations, I appreciate one-stop solutions.
One of my largest contracts requires me to write, print and ship 200+ pages of custom curriculum each month. Printing and shipping all in one place is a big time saver!
So, I’m thrilled to serve as a The UPS Store Brand Ambassador and to be able to offer my readers a great giveaway. I rarely offer giveaways on this site but I believe this will be a helpful one for the parents, educators, and homeschoolers who regularly read the blog and also for anyone who travels, ships gifts or products, needs small business shipping solutions, is moving, or does a lot of printing.
One of the reasons I am especially excited to partner with The UPS Store is their support of the Toys for Tots Literacy Program. AS an educator, I am passionate about literacy causes and will be working with The UPS Store in the next months to host a book drive to benefit a local literacy program.
Today, though, I visited my local franchise of The UPS Store for a very typical reason–to ship a package!
My mother’s Christmas gift arrived a day late and so I brought it right over to The UPS Store. They will re-package it and ship it and it will most likely arrive tomorrow! Too bad the original sender did not use The UPS Store!
—GIVEAWAY!—
The UPS Store would like my readers to have the opportunity to experience the convenience for themselves. They have given me $250 worth of gift cards to give away!
Prizes:
- One (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive $75 worth of gift cards to The UPS Store
- Two (2) First Prize Winners will receive $50 worth of gift cards to The UPS Store
- Three (3) Second Prize Winners will receive $25 worth of gift cards to The UPS Store
To Enter:
You can enter 1-3 times by completing any or all of the following. Please leave a separate comment for each entry.
- Leave a comment on this post sharing how you can use the services at The UPS Store for education or just let me know your favorite thing about The UPS Store.
- “Like” Naturally Educational and The UPS Store on facebook and leave a separate comment to let me know.
- Subscribe to the Naturally Educational e-mail digest and make sure to confirm your subscription.
Winners will be chosen at random from valid entries. Contest ends at 11:59 PM EST January 11, 2010.
UPDATE: I am disabling the facebook comments plugin because it does not notify me of comments, does not integrate well with wordpress comments, and has a long load-time. There were 62 comments using this and I counted them when using “And the Winner Is…” to select winners. All winners have been contacted! We’ll have another contest in January and February. Thank you!
Disclosure: I am writing this post in part as a paid The UPS Store Brand Ambassador and in conjunction with the #lovinlogistics campaign at Collective Bias. All opinions stated here are my own and are not affected by compensation.
My favorite thing about the UPS store is that they are a conveniently located place for me to ship things to my son across the country.
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My favorite thing about the UPS store is that I can get everything I need shipped in one place and know that it’s reliable.
I send out books to my family in California for my niece. I also will use it for the Tampa Bay Beagle Rescue since we need to send papers and medications for fosters.
I am always shipping books by UPS to my grandson’s in another state.
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My favorite thing about the UPS Store is that they will pack your packages for you pretty cheap. I’ve used their services quite a few times. Thanks so much for the chance! 🙂
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I can use these services for education because it is perfect for sending textbooks and the pricing is great so you can definitely save money!!
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My daughter is doing her internship teaching a fourth grade class in a very depressed area. I frequently send her “care packages” for her class and this would help out with the postage!
I can use the UPS store as a mailbox.
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I love the UPS store because you can do anything there as far as mailing things out and they have everything you need at hand!
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I like the customer service they give, they make shipping easy and painless.
my favorite thig is taht ups offers a variety of services in 1 location- notary, stamps, greeting cards etc
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The UPS STORE makes it perfect to ship items all year long to
my grand children in CT.
The UPS store mails out your packages so they arrive safely at the attended destination.
The UPS Store is great for sending bribes–uh, care packages–to my sister in Mumbai so she’ll feel guilty enough to send us nifty stuff from India to study.
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My favorite thing about the UPS store is that I know that they are reliable, I know that my packages will be delivered when they say they will be and won’t be damaged.
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I like that the lines at the UPS store is always a LOT shorter than the one at the post office
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My favorite thing is that they are a very convenient place to get passport pictures taken, easy in, easy out! That could actually lend to education… passport to go traveling and learn about other cultures!
Learned this Christmas that UPS is much cheaper to ship than USPS. How does that help me with education? Hmmm, well, my kids can count the money I’m saving! 😉
I like to use the zip code charts and a map to show kids where their packages are going, then compare why some shipping costs more. (“do you think it’s because it’s farther away?”)
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I love that the UPS Store offers so much in addition to just shipping packages such as custom printing, moving supplies and mailbox services!
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My favorite thing about our UPS store is the are super friendly and helpful so they get all my business.
I like how UPS can pick up packages straight from your door!
One time, the UPS man even brought my paper straight to me–It was so amazing.
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The UPS Store is so convenient. We use it when we go on vacation to Disney World and send our snacks and extra baggage instead of having to carry them or put them on the airplane. It’s much cheaper than the luggage fee and so easy since they haven’t been lost yet!
I like the UPS store because everything you’ll need for shipping is right there in one place! So convenient and reliable!