Ask about gaylords

What helps us reply

• Buy, sell or recycle
• Footprint, wall count and bottom style, if you know them
• How many, and when you need them or when they build up
• Your ZIP and a note about the dock

Prefer email? Write to info@bostongaylords.com. Not sure what to ask for? Start with sizes or the grades guide.

What happens after you send it

Prices, minimums and timing depend on the load, so none is stated on this site. Put the count, the dimensions and the ZIP in the request and the load can be read.

Writing instead of using the form

If you would rather write, the address is info@bostongaylords.com. Give the same details the form asks: what you need or have, how many, the footprint if you know it, and your ZIP. This site does not publish a street address, a phone number or opening hours.

Good requests, in practice

A good request is short. "Selling about forty 48 x 40 x 36 three-wall, partial flap, standing, ZIP 01801, Thursday mornings" says everything a reply needs. "Looking for ten harvest octabins by October 1, 46 x 38 footprint, ZIP 01752" does the same for a purchase. If you do not know a detail, say so; leaving a field open is better than guessing.

Before you write

Take a minute to look at the boxes. Count them, read any printing on the base, measure the footprint if you have a tape, and note whether anything is wet or damaged. The answers take less time than the request itself, and they decide what the reply can say.

Address, phone and hours

There is no street address, telephone number or list of opening hours here. Messages sent to the email address above are read alongside requests from the form. Whichever you use, include the town or ZIP of the dock and what the boxes are or will be used for, since those two facts shape every answer.

Sellers, buyers and recyclers

Each kind of request has its own page of guidance. Sellers should read sell, buyers buy and anyone with worn board recycle. None of them is required reading, but each lists the details that make a reply quicker.

A last check

Reread what you wrote. Does it say whether you are buying, selling or recycling? Does it give a count? Does it include your ZIP? If so, it is ready to send.

Photos and attachments

The form does not take attachments. If a photograph would help, say so in the message and mention what it would show; a reply may suggest how to send it. Plain description usually suffices for a first answer.

Reply expectations

A reply may arrive by email and may ask follow-up questions about quantity, condition or timing. No schedule is promised on this page, so keep your original message handy and add anything you remember later.

Spelling out abbreviations such as KD, OCC or PU helps, since readers come from many trades.