Homestead sits at the bottom of the county, and we are not going to pretend the trip to our Medley dock is quick — it is 45 to 55 minutes up the Turnpike each way. That distance does not change what we do; it changes how you should feed us. Most Homestead accounts ship inventory in or batch one loaded run a month, and we label, pack, store and forward to FBA in 24 to 48 hours.
South Miami-Dade runs on freight already. Packinghouses, nursery yards and produce shippers along Krome Avenue and the Turnpike have moved pallets north for decades, and the residential build-out along Campbell Drive keeps adding households — a fair number of them running an Amazon business out of a spare room or a rented storage unit.
What Homestead does not have is a prep bench. The county's warehouse capacity, its FNSKU labor and its Amazon-adjacent freight lanes all sit at the north end, in the Medley corridor between Miami International Airport and the Palmetto. Our dock is ten minutes from MIA and about twelve from Amazon's Opa-locka fulfillment site.
So the useful question for a Homestead seller is not whether to use a prep partner but how to get boxes there without burning two hours a week. Three lanes solve it: parcels and pallets shipped north, purchases and supplier deliveries addressed straight to us, and one batched drive when the vehicle is actually full.
Once inventory lands, the work is identical for everyone. Counted against your list, photographed where condition is doubtful, FNSKU-labeled and scan-verified, bagged or wrapped to listing requirements, racked or built into a shipment with box content data. Per-unit billing, no setup fee, no monthly floor, rate sheet within one business day.
| How inventory gets north from Homestead | When that lane is the right call |
|---|---|
| Ground parcel to our Medley address | A few cartons a week — usually cheaper than fuel plus two hours of your day |
| LTL pallet from a local shipper | A pallet or more at once, or anything you cannot lift into a vehicle |
| Purchases rerouted to our dock | Online buys and supplier orders that never need to visit Homestead at all |
| One batched monthly drive | Vehicle genuinely full, or you already had business up the Turnpike |
| Container or air freight | Imported goods — drayed from PortMiami or MIA straight to us |
Cut it to one batched run a month, or none. Parcels and rerouted purchases carry the rest, and your inventory still reaches Amazon on the same 24 to 48 hour clock.
Send the pallet to us instead. Our dock handles palletized freight, LCL and containers, checks it against the bill of lading, and photographs anything that arrived crushed or shifted.
Inventory held in a commercial warehouse instead of a closed-up garage stops aging on your shelf. Bin and pallet storage bills monthly on occupied space only.
Distance decides your inbound lane, not your eligibility. Most of our Homestead-area clients never see the building — they ship in, we prep, Amazon checks it in.
Ground parcels, LTL skids, LCL and 20 to 53 foot containers, plus air freight off MIA — logged the day they hit the dock.
Quantities verified line by line and a photo damage report on anything that took a hit, so claims stay possible while they still matter.
Labels applied and scan-verified; poly bags with suffocation warnings, bubble, shrink and expiration-date labels where the listing calls for them.
Bins for small stock, pallets for depth, billed monthly on occupied space — sized for buy-now, sell-later inventory patterns.
Case packing, box content data and carrier hand-off from our own dock, inside the 24 to 48 hour window.
Amazon removals graded and relabeled for a second run, plus FBM, Shopify, eBay, Etsy, Walmart and WFS prep from the same pool.
Parcel, pallet, rerouted purchase or one batched drive up the Turnpike — we set receiving instructions for whichever you choose.
Freight logged to your account the day it lands, counted against your list, condition photographed where it warrants it.
FNSKUs, bagging, bundling, case packing and box content data — completed within 24 to 48 hours of receiving.
Reserve stock stays racked; you trigger releases from home and cartons leave our dock without another trip north.
Plan on 45 to 55 minutes each way, and longer if you leave during the northbound morning peak. The cleanest route is Florida's Turnpike from the Campbell Drive or Speedway entrances up to the Palmetto (SR 826), then off at Medley for 8871 NW 102nd St. US-1 works too but bleeds time at every light through the south corridor. We would rather quote you the honest number than the map-app number.
For most weeks, yes — and we tell Homestead sellers that plainly. Two hours of round-trip driving plus fuel is real money against a handful of cartons that a ground label moves overnight inside the county. The drive earns its keep when the vehicle is genuinely full, or when you already had business north of Kendall. Below that threshold, print the label.
That is the rhythm we recommend at this distance. Accumulate a month of buys at home or at your unit, book one loaded run to Medley, and we take the whole batch in at the counter Monday through Friday, 9:00 to 18:00 EST. Between runs, anything urgent ships in by parcel. One drive a month instead of four keeps the miles honest.
Yes, and for Homestead accounts it is usually the biggest single improvement. Put 8871 NW 102nd St, Medley, FL 33178 with your account name on the shipping label and the goods never make the trip south only to come back north. We sign for them on a staffed dock, match them to the buy list you send, and start prep.
We do. Our dock takes palletized freight, loose cartons, LCL and full containers from 20 to 53 feet, so a local shipper wrapping a pallet for you is a normal inbound. Send us the bill of lading and expected count beforehand and the pallet is checked against it on arrival, with photos of anything that shifted or crushed in transit.
Yes. Bin and pallet storage is billed monthly on the space you actually occupy, which suits the buy-heavy, sell-later pattern common among south county sellers. Stock sits on our racks instead of your garage, and we release it into FBA in the sizes you want, when the season turns, within 24 to 48 hours of your trigger.
Nothing stalls. Your inventory pool lives on our racks, not in your vehicle, so replenishment shipments keep going out whether or not you leave the house. If new stock is waiting at your end, a parcel label covers the gap. Homestead sellers who route buys directly to us often go months without driving up at all.
Prep completes within 24 to 48 hours of receiving: counted against your list, photographed where condition is questionable, FNSKU-labeled and scan-verified, bagged or wrapped per listing requirements, then built into a shipment with box content data. Sealed cartons hand to the carrier from our dock, and Amazon's Opa-locka site is about twelve minutes away.
Yes. The same racked stock feeds FBM orders and Shopify, eBay, Etsy and Walmart sales, and we prep for Walmart WFS. For a Homestead seller, that removes the temptation to keep a second stash at home for the non-Amazon channel — one pool in Medley serves all of them.
Send the quote form with what you sell, roughly how many units move monthly, and whether inventory will arrive by parcel, pallet or a monthly drive. Per-unit rates and receiving instructions come back within one business day, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum. Then reroute your next purchase and the flow starts.
Tell us what you sell, your rough monthly units, and whether inventory would arrive by parcel, pallet or one batched drive. Per-unit rates and receiving instructions arrive within one business day.
