About Philly Gaylords

Philly Gaylords exists for the people who handle bulk boxes in the Delaware Valley: growers who need harvest bins, plants that receive resin, warehouses that end up with stacks of empties, food drives, machine shops. They do not need a catalog. They need a straight answer to three questions: what box do I need, what is this stack worth to someone, and what happens to the boxes that are done.

So the site is organized around those questions. Buy, sell and recycle are the three lanes. The sizes, guides and industry pages answer the questions that come before a request. The area pages tie the whole thing to the ground it serves.

Every number on the site is either arithmetic you can check or a figure with a named source. The sizes pages compute volume as width times depth times height over 1,728, and divide a maker's published rating by that volume. The area pages draw on public reporting for the plants, terminals and markets they name. Where we could not find a source we left the sentence out.

We review pages on a schedule and mark the date at the top of each, so a reader can tell a fresh page from a stale one at a glance. If a figure has changed, a request to correct it is welcome.

• Buy. You need boxes for a season or a job; we match style, walls, bottom and grade to your load.
• Sell. You have empties; we grade them from what you describe and say whether they can be resold.
• Recycle. The boxes are done; we sort what has fiber value from what is only waste.

Most real requests cross lanes, and a request that crosses them is welcome. A warehouse often has Grade A boxes to sell and a pile of wet ones for the baler, and sends one request that says both.

Buyers often anchor on one number, and the comparison most buyers make is price per box. The comparison that matters is price divided by the trips the box will make. A cheap box that survives one trip costs more than a pricier one that survives four. Everything on this site is arranged to put that comparison within reach, which is why the home page opens with the ticket and why the guides on new versus used and on what sets a price are among the most-read pages.

Use the quote form on any page. It is the same form everywhere, and we answer by email. If your question is not about a request, put it in the message.