Established Shipping and Mailing Store 

Listing Details:

• Business Category:      Pack/Ship/Postal  
• Price:                               $529,000
• Gross Revenue:             $1,075,122
• SDE:                                $167,563
• Seller Financing:            $105,800
• Location:                         St Paul
• Employees:                     4 FT, 5PT       
• Support & Training:       40 Hours      
• Reason for Selling:        Retirement     
                    

Business Description:

This long-established franchised Shipping and Mailing Store has been located in a destination neighborhood for over 30 Years and is reliably profitable in good times and bad. The store provides packaging, shipping, notary, shredding, mailbox rental, copying, printing and more!

Open seven days a week this store runs very efficiently with a complete, in place, staff that include two long time managers. The owner works approximately 20 hours a week in the store and does the balance of the store administrative work from their home office.

About The Location

The store is well respected within the franchise system for their expertise with shipping high valued and unique items such as works of art and for the scale of the operation which is considered very large. The store has been recently updated in the last 2 years and has all of the tools and equipment such as highspeed copiers and networked shipping stations to allow the new owner to continue the growth trajectory. Recently the owner transitioned to a new pricing model that has increase net profitability by approximately 8-9% that has had a significant impact on the bottom line.

Competitive Analysis:

Located in a mixed residential and retail area of the Metro area the city is growing at a rate in excess of 9%. Combine this growth with the transition to a web-based retail economy that needs a shipping location to return unwanted items and you will understand why the business has been growing.