Carole O'Hanlon went to ShipAlmostAnything.com because the month- old West Babylon startup has already helped move just about everything, from pianos and chandeliers to a show horse and a box of frozen rats.
Cadigan agreed the industry is coming back. In the last six weeks freight volume has gone up and pricing has gone down because carriers are giving better deals."They came and packed it all up and three days later it arrived safely," O'Hanlon said. "Before the best price we could get was $1,500 and being senior citizens we couldn't afford that," O'Hanlon said.At 63,000 square feet, the multipurpose event venue in Manhattan houses the National Track & Field Hall of Fame museum and after-school sports programs.It seems only appropriate that Petah Coyne's latest exhibition, "Everything That Rises Must Converge," takes its title from a Flannery O'Connor short-story collection. Coyne's brooding sculptures, filled with allusions to death and disaster, have always been in dialogue with literature; an overlap with the southern gothic is readily apparent. The show features a selection of Coyne's work from the past two decades in MASS MOCA'S triple-height gallery space, from dripped-wax chandeliers to blurred photographs of children and monks. Two large sculptures will showcase her new materials--expect taxidermy among the velvet, candles, and birdcages. An accompanying catalogue, with contributions from A. M. Homes, Rebecca Solnit, and the curator, offers a further opportunity to consider the writerly aspects of Coyne's flamboyantly intricate gloom.The shipping industry had a catastrophic 2009, with revenue off 20 percent over 2008, Clark said. Germany-based shipping behemoth DHL kicked off the crash by taking $10 billion in losses, pulling the plug on its U.S. operations in January 2009 and pink slipping 13,000 employees.Then O'Hanlon came upon ShipAlmostAnything. She listed the items on the website, where she wanted them shipped and a time frame. A shipper with the right attitude contacted her directly and said the cost would be $700.Curated by Denise MarkonishIt wasn't just the big boys who were hurt badly by the recession, said Mike Muscalara, president of New Jersey-based Mover'n Shipper, which charges a flat fee to SSPs to bid on jobs.Throughout the renovation process, Mayland has also prepared to move her storefront from Cross River to a white colonial building on Katonah Avenue."My partner and I ruffled through some old rooms and found incredible chandeliers, put them together and rewired them," Mayland said. "We added some faux paint to a very ugly 1950s fireplace and the room now looks incredible."What separates ShipAlmostAnything from the majority of online shipping services is the quality of the website, said Chris Cadigan, who owns a Unishipper franchise in southern Nassau County, mainly shipping freight for companies.ShipAlmostAnything is not unique in charging a flat fee to bid, but most online shipping sites charge about a 20 percent commission to the SSPs, which is passed along to the consumer, said Bill Clark, president of the Washington, D.C.- based American Institute for Shippers' Associations."The website is quite clever, easy to navigate, great for the consumer market," Cadigan said.Mayland also installed a Jacobean oak wood floor, hung an original wrought iron gate and repaired paneling.May 29, 2010-Spring 2011Online bidding for jobs helps the smaller companies, who have space on a truck and can fill it by bidding on what will fit, he added.
Bader said that at any one time there might be 40 auctions going on at ShipAlmostAnything. Asked what the "almost anything" means, Bader said, "Anything legal."
Author: Ambrose Clancy
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