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1879 Whitehaven Rd, Grand Island, NY
Email: print@islandshipcenter.com
Call: (716) 773-6300 | Text: (716) 471-4925
We Are Celebrating 15 Years In Business Today, With Gratitude And Optimism
15 years ago, we began working on our dream to setup up a model community business by setting up Island Ship Center inside a storage unit on Baseline Road with three services: FedEx retail shipping, copies and faxing. Over the years, we continued to serve our amazing community, clients and friends with additional services and are now so thankful to have reached a milestone in our business. (Please be sure to check out the business growth timeline on this page). As we celebra
Apr 5, 20211 min read
Island Ship Center 2020 End Of The Year Review - In Words And Pictures
2020 has been an emotional roller coaster, to say the least, a ride filled with ups, downs, highs and lows. It may have not been a year we’d like to remember, but surely one we’ll never forget. While the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic to small businesses was significant, the Island Ship Center soared to new heights in many areas. In addition, 2020 forced us to make substantial adjustments to our business and our way of doing things, a challenge in itself. Although the challeng
Dec 29, 20205 min read
Six Feet Apart But In This Together
We wanted to take this time out to thank everyone who has continued to support our business during these challenging times, even from a distance. Your texts, messages, emails, phone calls, social distance hugs and love mean so much to us. THANK YOU! - Fahim, Seema and the entire Island Ship Center Team #SpaOfShipping #FahimFix #ExudeExcellence #SeemaSolves
Apr 10, 20201 min read
Social Distancing - New Dropoff Procedures
Like all of you, we have spent the last few weeks trying to understand and plan for how the coronavirus (COVID-19) will impact our world. CDC.gov is an excellent website and recommends the following precautions: 1. Practice social distancing 2. Wash hands constantly with soap and water 3. Avoid large gatherings 4. Use sanitizer (when washing with soap and water is not readily available) with at least 60% alcohol. 5. Avoid being in contact with sick persons. 6. Please get nece
Mar 16, 20202 min read
Linda’s Dream of Owning a Replica Dining Table from Her Childhood Came True
In 2018, Linda emailed us from Virginia about an online auction listing for a dining table set that was being sold here on Grand Island. This table matched the one Linda grew up with as a child and it reminded her of her childhood memories. We went to the house to provide an estimate for shipping the table. The negotiation did not go through. Fast forward to 15 months later, and Linda emailed us again that the seller put the table on the market again and was willing to accept
Jan 28, 20201 min read
Save The Date Wedding Cards for Danielle & Ralph – She Said, “Yes!”
Danielle is one of our awesome guests at Island Ship Center. She’s a writer, entrepreneur, marketing expert, Island resident and Canisius graduate. When her fiance, Ralph, a graduate of Niagara University, proposed to her, she was elated. The two were set to be married last September (2018). Ralph complements Danielle very well; he’s also very good with numbers. In fact, he’s a CPA and works for a large accounting firm in the area. When Danielle found out that we designed and
Feb 8, 20192 min read
Our Support A Soldier Event Is Back – This Year On Saturday, Dec 1st from 10 AM to 3 PM
We are working with Colonel Patrick Soos once again this year to ship out care packages to active duty military personnel from Grand Island, stationed away from their families, in time to arrive for the holidays. This event is set for Saturday, December 1st, from 10 AM to 3 PM. In the meantime, you can come by the store and drop off your donations, monetary or otherwise, and we’ll be sure to use 100% towards this event. We have created a special account in our POS software ca
Nov 16, 20181 min read
Grand Island Golden Age Center – Celebration of Gratitude Party
On Wednesday, Seema and I hosted a “Celebration of Gratitude” party for members of the Grand Island Golden Age Center. We invited these youthfully senior members of Grand Island to our facility to thank them for their support of our business over the years. We also wanted to play games and have a memorable, fun time. After first popping sheets of bubbles, each member received a prize from our prize selection. Then, we played “Shipping Bingo,” in which all the answers were act
Sep 28, 20182 min read
Notepads, Now Designed & Printed In House – #YesWePrint
Two months ago, Seema and I traveled to Minneapolis to Postal Dispatch Business Center, another store in our industry, which specializes in commercial printing for its clients. John Koplos, the owner of Postal Dispatch, along with his gracious wife, Denise, hosted us for 3 days and trained us in new printing services for our store. One of these services is making notepads in house. After we came back, we purchased a padding press and other relevant items required to make thes
Aug 27, 20182 min read
Beatles Fans, We Just Packed & Shipped Limited Edition Ludwig Replica Drum Sets Hand Signed by Ringo Starr – #SpaOfShipping
Gary Astridge is a long term client and friend of Island Ship Center. He loves the Beatles and has been collector since the age of 7. A few years ago, he had the distinct honor of traveling on tour with Ringo Starr, and then getting commissioned to make limited edition replica snare drum sets, just like the exact Ludwig set that Ringo used in 1963. 55 years later, on May 12, 2018, Gary traveled to Los Angeles to deliver piece #9 of 15 to Sir Richard Starkey himself! The piec
Jul 23, 20183 min read
Proud to Sponsor the First Pitch for Niagara Power Baseball’s Home Games This Season
Patrick Tutka, Assistant Professor of Sports Management at Niagara University and the Director of Niagara Power Baseball, is a dear friend and client of ours at Island Ship Center. A soft-spoken, erudite man with an intense desire to build business relationships and make lasting positive impact in the community, Patrick has been recruited from LSU (the epitome of college baseball) to Niagara University and is doing amazing things there. He has an extraordinary ability to lea
Jun 7, 20182 min read
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try Doing It The Way Mom Told You In The Beginning
It’s taken me over 40 years to understand this one simple saying, “Mom’s always right.” I love my mother. I really do. Over the past six months, after dealing with a scary cancer diagnosis, and getting through her surgery with flying colors, I appreciate my mother even more. After my father passed away 20 years ago, my mother has been both a mom and a dad to my sister and me. Seema has been awesome in partnering up with me to take care of my mom as well, I must say. So, this
Apr 27, 20181 min read
Family Heirlooms Safely Transported to Florida – #SpaOfShipping Memories
In continuing with our mission to make memories for our guests and clients, we’d like to highlight a recent pack job for one of our dear fans. She came in wanting to pack and safely ship out 43 glasses, which belonged to her mother, and passed down through generations of her family. Her relative in Florida did not think it could be done without damaging the fragile items. We assured her that we would take care of packing these pieces as if they were our own! Even though we ca
Mar 16, 20182 min read
Perry’s Ice Cream from Buffalo to Iowa? Yes, We Just Shipped That For a Special Someone – #SpaOfShipping
One of my dear clients, KW, recently moved from Grand Island to a city in Iowa, because of her husband’s job relocation. She loved Western New York and the family really loved Perry’s Ice Cream, especially the chocolate flavored Panda Paws, yummy! Recently, she contacted me through Facebook messenger and asked (as a by the way, thinking out loud sort of message) if there was any way that she could get Perry’s ice cream shipped to her house. Her husband had been having craving
Feb 16, 20182 min read
Raffle Tickets, Now Designed and Printed In House – #YesWePrint
This weekend, the Sidway Elementary School PTA is hosting their annual basket raffle and Family Fun Day. The Sidway Playground Fund, in order to raise money for a new playground, will also be there to start the raffle of a new jet ski, special thanks to Anchor Marine. Many parents, teachers and staff members are working very hard to make this event a success. At this event, there will be a raffle with many prizes, including that Sea Doo GTI Watercraft. One of the parents of
Feb 2, 20181 min read
Check Out Our Display Table at M&T Bank Grand Island – It’s There Until the 17th
Greg Kaiser, the new branch manager at M&T Bank Grand Island, contacted me a few weeks ago and asked if I’d be interested in setting up a temporary table at the bank, in order to promote my business. In exchange, the bank would show its support for small business clients and I loved the idea. This week, we have set up our table at the branch and my wife Seema did a lovely job with all the aesthetics (thankfully). The table is only there until the 17th of October, at which tim
Oct 6, 20171 min read
A 250 lb Robot? Yes, Picked, Packed & Shipped Safely to Wisconsin for US Courts
Broken robot being shipped to Wisconsin A few weeks ago, I received a call from downtown Buffalo. The woman was in need of shipping a large robot back to the sender in Wisconsin. I asked for more details and she told me that it was originally purchased by the US Courts department for training purposes for parole officers. When they purchased it (for quite a large sum of money), it did not last the test of being shot at several times, let’s just say. So, the woman, a purchasin
Aug 18, 20172 min read
Grand Island Tie Dye T-Shirts Are Back In Stock – For A Limited Time
We welcome many tourists and visitors at our store, especially during the summer months. They are looking for unique gifts that they can take back to their family and loved ones. Yesterday, we had a visitor from Lichtenstein, the 6th smallest country in the world, which has a population just less than double that of Grand Island! He really enjoyed looking at the gifts in our store. He ended up purchasing some New Yankees pencils, along with one of my wife’s handmade body cre
Jul 7, 20171 min read
A Kittinger Table, Safely Packed & Shipped to Budapest, Hungary
A few weeks ago, I received a call from a woman in California, asking me if I would be able to assist her in packing & shipping a replica antique table to Budapest, Hungary. I initially thought this offer was fishy and asked the woman if her Hungarian client was legit. She assured me that the client was in fact a legitimate person, an American author, in fact, living in Budapest. I was now excited to take on the project. My client in California further informed me that the ta
Jun 16, 20173 min read
Fidget Spinners, Gadgets and Gyroscopes Now In Stock – For A Limited Time
A few weeks ago, we received a small shipment of fidget spinners, the latest popular toy for kids (and adults) to keep them occupied and prevent fidgeting. In less than four days, we sold out of two boxes. We tried to order more and were told (from six suppliers) that they were back ordered for 2 weeks. Well, we finally received another shipment yesterday, this time with 3 new styles. All quantities are very limited and we will not be ordering any more. I’ve received a lot o
May 19, 20171 min read
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