Most Palmetto Bay sellers we work with are not full-time sellers. They are professionals, consultants and small-brand owners running FBA beside a career — which means prep gets done at 21:00, badly, by someone who has already worked a day. Our Medley dock is 35 to 40 minutes north. Drop the work off or ship it in; labeling, packing, storage and FBA shipments happen inside 24 to 48 hours, on our clock instead of yours.
The village reads as residential, but the household mix is unusual: professionals, self-employed specialists and people who have already built one business. When that group starts selling on Amazon, they arrive with capital and a plan and almost no free time — which is the opposite of the classic hustle-first seller profile.
So the constraint shows up in a specific place. Sourcing and listing work fine, because they fit into the gaps of a day. Physical prep does not. It needs a table, a printer, an hour of uninterrupted attention and a body that has not already spent nine hours somewhere else.
Handing that segment to a warehouse is not about volume. A Palmetto Bay seller moving two hundred units a month can still spend six or seven evenings on them. Those evenings have a cost, and it is usually larger than what the prep itself is worth on a per-unit basis.
What we take on: freight and parcel receiving, counting against your PO with photographed damage reports, FNSKU application with scan verification, poly bagging with suffocation warnings, bubble and shrink, bundling, expiration-date labeling, case packing with box content data, monthly rack storage and replenishment on your trigger. Per-unit pricing, rate sheet within one business day.
| Where the side-business week goes | What the Medley dock absorbs |
|---|---|
| Counting cartons after dinner | Line-by-line check-in against your list, during business hours |
| Printing and applying labels at the kitchen island | FNSKUs applied and scan-verified on a bench that does it daily |
| Bagging and bundling on the weekend | Poly bagging, bubble, shrink and multipack assembly to listing spec |
| Building shipment plans late at night | Case packing and box content data prepared with the shipment |
| Driving sealed boxes to a carrier counter | Carrier hand-off directly from our loading dock |
| Storing stock in the guest room | Bin and pallet racking, monthly on the space actually used |
Prep is the only part of the business that cannot be done from a phone. Move it to a dock and the rest — sourcing, listing, pricing, ads — still fits in the gaps of your day.
Inventory that waits for Saturday is inventory that is not sellable. Receiving to carrier hand-off runs 24 to 48 hours here, independent of your calendar.
Tired label passes are where mismatches happen. Every FNSKU is scan-verified against the listing before a carton is closed.
Freight goes to our dock instead of your driveway. Pallets are racked and released into FBA in the increments your sell-through justifies.
Cartons, pallets, LCL and containers from 20 to 53 feet, plus air freight off MIA — logged to your account the day they land.
Counted against your purchase order, with a photographed damage report on anything the factory or the carrier got wrong.
FNSKUs applied and scan-verified; poly bags with suffocation warnings, bubble, shrink and expiration-date labels where listings require them.
Multipacks and sets assembled into one sellable unit and labeled as the bundle — useful for testing a format before committing to factory packing.
Bins and pallets billed monthly on occupied space, released into FBA within 24 to 48 hours of your trigger.
Returned units graded and relabeled for a second run, plus FBM, Shopify, eBay, Etsy, Walmart and WFS prep from the same pool.
SKUs, quantities and handling notes reach us however you like. That is the part that genuinely needs you.
Driven up, shipped in or delivered by your supplier. Logged and counted on our floor during our hours.
Labels, bags, bundles, case packing and box content data — completed within 24 to 48 hours of receiving.
You confirm counts and any condition photos, cartons leave our dock, and your evening stays yours.
Around 35 to 40 minutes. From the US-1 and SW 152nd Street area you have two workable options: north on US-1 to SR 874 and the Palmetto, or west to Florida's Turnpike and north from there. Both funnel onto SR 826 and exit at Medley for 8871 NW 102nd St. Traffic direction favors you in the morning and works against you at evening rush.
No. Receiving happens against the list you send, whether you are standing at the counter or in a meeting. You get the count and any condition photos afterward, and you approve what ships. Most Palmetto Bay accounts we run are second businesses; the entire point is that the warehouse day happens without you in it.
Yes, if your commute already points north. We receive Monday through Friday from 9:00 EST, and a loaded trunk unloads at the counter in minutes. Sellers who work in Doral, near the airport or anywhere along the Palmetto corridor build the stop into a normal morning rather than making a dedicated trip.
That mismatch is exactly what the ship-in lane solves. Print a label at 22:00, hand the boxes to a carrier the next day, and the dock work happens during our hours instead of yours. Nothing about the service requires you to be awake at the same time as the warehouse — only your instructions have to arrive.
Yes. First production runs are a common request here: we receive the freight, count it against your PO, photograph condition, apply and scan-verify FNSKU labels, poly bag with suffocation warnings where required, bundle sets, then case pack with box content data. If the first run reveals a packaging problem, you learn it from our photos rather than from Amazon.
It should. We receive LCL and full containers from 20 to 53 feet plus air freight off Miami International, ten minutes from our dock. Your forwarder arranges clearance and delivery — we are not the importer of record and do not handle customs brokerage, so DDP terms usually make life easiest. We take over at the door.
We do. Sets are assembled, packaged as a single sellable unit and labeled as the bundle rather than as components, with expiration-date labeling applied where the product needs it. For a small brand testing a multipack listing without committing to a factory-packed version, it is a cheap way to find out whether the format sells.
Yes, and for part-time sellers it is often the highest-value part of the arrangement. Reserve stock sits on our racks by the bin or pallet, billed monthly on space actually used, and moves into FBA in the increments you choose. Your Amazon footprint stays sized to sell-through instead of to whatever your production run happened to be.
They come to our dock rather than your driveway. Units are graded on condition, relabeled where they are still sellable, and either rebuilt into an FBA shipment or routed to another channel. Anything unsellable is reported with photos so you can make the call, which is a far better use of a weekend than sorting returned cartons yourself.
Overlap them. Send the quote form, get per-unit rates and receiving instructions within one business day, then route only your next inbound to us while the current shipment finishes on its own. There is no setup fee and no monthly minimum, so running one batch through as a test costs you nothing but the units in it.
Tell us what you sell, roughly how many units move monthly, and how much of your own time prep currently takes. Per-unit rates and receiving instructions arrive within one business day.
