Wellington's selling year has a shape: quiet summers, a heavy autumn purchase order, and a winter when demand arrives all at once. We are 70–75 minutes south in Medley, so the working model here is ship-in — freight reaches our dock next business day, prep completes in 24–48 hours, and the stock you are not ready to commit waits on our shelves until the season calls for it.
Few Florida towns change size the way Wellington does. The equestrian calendar brings tens of thousands of seasonal residents, trainers, grooms and visitors from January through spring, then releases them. Brand owners who live here feel that curve in their Amazon numbers whether or not the product has anything to do with horses.
A seasonal curve punishes two habits at once. Commit the entire autumn purchase order into Amazon and you are paying to store the peak for months before it sells. Hold it at home instead and January arrives with pallets in a garage and nobody free to label them.
Splitting the difference is the whole job. Your supplier ships to Medley. We prep the working quantity now, keep the surge quantity on our racks, and release it into FBA in batches as velocity justifies — 24 to 48 hours from the moment you say go, with Amazon MIA1 about twelve minutes from our loading doors.
The products Wellington sends us skew premium: boutique apparel and accessories, rider and stable goods, wellness and supplement lines, giftable sets built for an affluent buyer. Those SKUs are unforgiving about presentation, so labeling placement and packaging protection get treated as part of the product rather than an afterthought at the end of the line.
| Wellington factor | What we do about it |
|---|---|
| ~70–75 minutes away | Ship-in by default via the Turnpike corridor; occasional batched drop-off by appointment |
| Autumn purchase orders | Supplier ships direct to Medley, counted line by line against your PO |
| January to April peak | Reserve stock released into FBA in batches, 24–48 hours per trigger |
| Premium retail packaging | Label placement fixed with you; bagging instead of stickering when the box is the brand |
| Summer away from Florida | Fully remote — receiving reports, damage photos and shipment confirmations by email |
| Post-season returns | Removals graded, relabeled and either resent to FBA or held for next winter |
The big purchase order lands on our dock instead of your driveway. Counted, inspected, prepped and split between an FBA shipment and reserve racks.
Sales climb with the season. You trigger replenishment; prepped units leave our shelves for Amazon within 24–48 hours, batch after batch.
Removals and returns come back here, get graded and relabeled, and anything still sellable is held rather than dumped at a loss.
No setup fee and no monthly minimum means a quiet summer costs you only the storage space you actually occupy while you plan the next order.
Onto our racks. Receiving takes the whole order, prep runs on the portion Amazon should hold now, and the rest waits here — billed on space used, released when your sell-through says so.
That is a labor bottleneck wearing a stockout costume. Reserve stock kept prepped and on our shelves converts to an Amazon shipment in a day or two, not in however long it takes you to find a weekend.
Premium packaging needs bubble, correct carton density and labels that never land on a printed face. We photograph borderline units at receiving so the decision about what ships is yours.
Amazon has run no prep and no item labeling for US sellers since January 1, 2026, and damage or loss on units that arrive unprepped falls outside reimbursement. The work did not disappear — it just has to happen before Amazon sees the carton.
Autumn orders arrive as cases, pallets or containers and are counted line by line against the PO you sent us, on arrival day.
Transit and factory damage is photographed before anyone opens a case, so a supplier claim carries evidence rather than an argument.
Barcodes applied where you specify and scan-verified; dated goods carry expiration labels in the format Amazon requires.
Poly bags carrying the suffocation warning, bubble around glass and ceramics, shrink for sets — chosen so the retail package reaches the buyer intact.
Racked bins and pallets charged against the footprint you occupy, holding the surge quantity outside Amazon until velocity justifies sending it.
Returned and removed units graded, relabeled where sellable, and either restocked into FBA or reported with photos for write-off.
We prep in Medley, in Miami-Dade, roughly 70 to 75 minutes from Wellington by way of Florida's Turnpike. Nothing about that is a drive worth repeating weekly, and we will not build a page pretending otherwise. Wellington brands work with us on a ship-in basis: freight leaves your location and reaches our dock the following business day, and everything after that runs on our clock instead of your calendar.
Standard parcel ground with a scheduled pickup covers most Wellington volume and delivers to us the next business day, since Florida-to-Florida is a one-day lane. Once a shipment runs past roughly thirty cartons, palletized LTL becomes the better answer and still normally arrives the following day, booked into a receiving window. Which lane fits gets decided on carton dimensions and weight, not a rule of thumb.
By staging inventory before the season rather than chasing it during. Wellington clients typically land the heavy purchase orders in October and November; we prep the quantity Amazon should be holding and shelf the balance here as reserve. From January onward, replenishment moves within 24 to 48 hours of your trigger, so a restock becomes a message to us instead of a purchase order with a lead time attached.
Yes, and for a seasonal Wellington catalog that is usually the smarter shape. Storage is billed monthly against the bin and pallet space actually occupied, with no minimum attached to it. You keep Amazon stocked to the level your real velocity justifies and hold the surge quantity on our shelves, where it is not competing for your Amazon capacity or aging into long-term storage.
Prep on premium goods starts from the assumption that the box is customer-facing. Labels cover a manufacturer barcode and nothing else, printed sleeves and rigid boxes get bagged rather than stickered when that is the cleaner answer, and fragile pieces are bubbled and packed to a density that survives a carrier belt. Where a decision is genuinely ambiguous, a photo reaches you before we commit the run.
Kitting and bundling happen on the same floor, handled by the crew that preps your single units. Components arrive loose from different suppliers, you send the recipe and the finished look you expect, and sets leave as single sellable units under one FNSKU with box-content data attached. Wellington brands mostly use this for rider gift sets, branded starter kits and seasonal multipacks assembled once demand is proven rather than months ahead.
It never depended on you being in the state. Wellington empties out after spring and several of our clients spend the summer elsewhere; the working relationship is email, phone and paperwork either way. Suppliers ship to Medley, we receive against your purchase order, replenishment triggers arrive from wherever you happen to be, and reporting follows the inventory rather than your address.
By reading the same records our floor works from. Every arrival is counted against your purchase order and any discrepancy is named rather than absorbed. Damage found at receiving is photographed before prep begins. Sealed shipments carry a confirmation and tracking. If a unit looks below the standard your brand sells at, it gets pulled and photographed instead of quietly shipped to a customer.
Route removal orders here rather than to a house in Wellington. Units are graded, the sellable ones cleaned up, relabeled and either returned to an FBA shipment or held as reserve for next winter, and the rest are reported with photos so the write-off decision is an informed one. April and May are our busiest weeks for this work out of Palm Beach County.
Earlier than most people do — ideally before the purchase order that funds the season is placed, so receiving instructions go to your supplier instead of to your own address. Send the product details, your monthly unit range across a full year and the shape of your peak, and a per-unit rate sheet with written receiving instructions reaches you inside one business day.
Tell us what you sell, how steep the swing is between your quiet months and your peak, and when the next purchase order lands. A per-unit rate sheet and written receiving instructions reach you inside one business day — early enough to put our address on that order instead of yours.
