by Fahim & Seema | Jan 19, 2026 | Community Service, Packing & Shipping
Frances’ Precious China to Portland Our dear friend and client, Frances, needed to get heirloom china sent from Grand Island to her niece in Portland, Maine. So, she came to us at Island Ship Center! Each piece was packed with care by our certified packing...
by Fahim & Seema | Dec 1, 2025 | Packing & Shipping
Holiday Shipping Tips The holidays are here! With them comes gift-giving (and therefore gift-shipping) season, and, as always, Island Ship Center is ready and excited to serve as your holiday shipping headquarters. Here are some tips to help ensure your gifts arrive...
by Fahim & Seema | Aug 24, 2025 | Community Service, Packing & Shipping
We don’t just say that we go above and beyond for our guests. We prove it. At the end of June, our dear client Robin contacted us. She was out of town in Colorado for her daughter’s softball tournament, but her daughter’s softball team’s uniforms hadn’t arrived yet...
by Fahim & Seema | May 19, 2025 | #FahimFix, Industry Awards, Packing & Shipping
We are incredibly honored to be featured once again in FedEx ShipSource®, the publication shared with FedEx Authorized ShipCenters® (FASCs) across the country. For a few years now, Island Ship Center has been one of the top three (out of 4,600) FASCs in the country...
by Fahim & Seema | Dec 19, 2024 | Packing & Shipping
One of our clients of many, many years recently lost her mother. When her brother and sister came up to Grand Island from Florida to be with family, they had wanted to take back with them some precious seasonal ceramic pieces that their mother had hand painted. But,...
by Fahim & Seema | Sep 18, 2024 | Community Service, Packing & Shipping
My mother, a resident of Grand Island, lost her fight to glioblastoma in early August. She was a perfectionist in every sense of the word, born with immense creativity and an eye for detail. Up until the very end, my family and I tried our best to approach every...
