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Media contact
Mark Anderson
Owner, The Shipping Place
admin@theshippingplacetx.com · (936) 444-9711
Available for interviews on small-business shipping, carrier pricing, and what local businesses actually need from a website. Same-day response on weekdays.
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The Shipping Place is a veteran-owned business center in Magnolia, Texas, handling USPS, UPS, FedEx and DHL at a single counter, along with mailbox rental, notary service, printing and packing. It ships thousands of packages a year and holds a 4.9-star rating across 203 Google reviews. The store also builds and maintains websites for local businesses across Greater Magnolia. It is owned by Mark Anderson, a U.S. military veteran and former Amazon software engineer.
Fact sheet
Current as of August 2026. The rating and review count are public on Google and exact. If your piece needs a harder number than the ones here, email and you will get it on the record.
- Owner
- Mark Anderson
- Location
- 9311 FM 1488 Rd, Suite 30, Magnolia, TX 77354
- Carriers handled
- USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL — all four at one counter
- Volume
- Thousands of packages a year
- Google rating
- 4.9 out of 5, across 203 reviews
- Also offers
- Mailbox rental, notary, printing, packing, fax, copy
- Second line of business
- Websites, SEO and email marketing for local businesses
Logos and artwork
Print-ready logo files in whatever format your layout needs are available on request. Email admin@theshippingplacetx.com with the publication and the format, and you will have them the same day.
We send artwork to publications rather than posting it for open download. It is one email, and it means the mark stays where it belongs.
Photography
High-resolution photographs of the store, the counter, and the owner are available for editorial use on request. Email admin@theshippingplacetx.com and say what the piece needs — you will have files the same day.
We would rather send you a photograph of the actual shop than have you run a stock image of somebody else's counter.
Story angles we can speak to
- →What shipping actually costs now. Carriers price on box size as well as weight, and peak-season surcharges start in late September. We can show a reporter, with real examples, why a light box can price like a heavy one.
- →The counter that sends people to the post office. No carrier wins every parcel. We quote all four side by side and say out loud which one wins yours, even when it is the one we make the least on.
- →A software engineer behind a postal counter. The owner wrote software at Amazon before opening a shop on FM 1488, and now builds websites for the businesses along that same road.
- →Small-business websites, priced in public. Prices printed on the page instead of quoted after a discovery call — unusual in the trade, and we will explain why.
- →Mail theft and the holidays. What a mailbox at a shipping store does that a box on a porch does not, in the months when it matters most.
Last updated August 2026. Corrections and requests: admin@theshippingplacetx.com