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Sending "fully Loaded" Pallets to amazon distribution center
Hello there, we are a relatively new seller here on amazon, we have been selling for 4 months now and have been experiencing great success in growing our amazon store
my question is regarding LTL shipments to amazon distribution centers,
Our individual items are first case packaged, then we package the cases onto a pallet and ship to the distribution center via LTL, unfortunately from what i understand of amazons requirement for packaging a pallet for LTL is that all cases must be able to be scanned without breaking down the pallet.. i.e. every cases label needs to face the outside of the pallet and you cannot have multiple "rows" of boxes/cases as that would require them to break down the pallet to scan each box into Amazons system.
Our issue is that when we pack our items, the cases are relatively narrow and ideally we would have 3-5 rows of product on a pallet, however, as stated , amazon's requirement from what i see would prohibit this. so we have to only pack 2 rows which greatly waste pallet space and increases our cost per item to ship to amazon.
Our manufacturer is a relatively large company and packs our cases off the assembly line onto a pallet at the full capacity, and They have stated to me that they have sent the full pallets with multiple "rows" of boxes direct to amazon in the past.
Any guidance on if sending the full pallets are allowed and I'm missing something in the regulations is greatly appreciated
thanks
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That is inaccurate unless it is something new. We send in LTL all the time and the boxes visable from the outside of the pallet must have the label visable but any internal boxes have the label on the top.
We ship 16x12x12 boxes, 9 per level (3x3), up to 4 levels high but due to weight we usually only do 3 levels high.
This means the center box is not visable, the label is on the top of that box.
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