Shipping Information

Few things about USA Magnets and More earned more customer loyalty than a simple promise that sat at the top of this page for years: free shipping on all orders of $20 or more. Here's how shipping worked in the classic era of the store, kept for reference and for the many customers who've asked us to preserve the details.

The Free Shipping Promise

Orders of $20 or more shipped free anywhere in the continental United States. In practice that meant almost every fundraiser order, every pack of minis, and any pair of full-size ribbons qualified — the threshold was set deliberately low so that free shipping was the rule, not the exception. During our blowout sale events, free shipping extended to bulk packs as large as 1,000 magnets.

How Orders Traveled

Magnets are nearly the perfect mail product: flat, light and unbreakable. Small orders shipped in rigid flat mailers via the U.S. Postal Service; bulk fundraiser orders went by ground carrier in compact cartons — a 250-magnet fundraiser box weighed under twenty pounds. Orders left our North Carolina shop quickly, and East Coast customers often saw their magnets within two or three days.

Packing That Protected the Product

Magnetic vinyl ships safely with two rules, and our packing room never broke either: keep it flat, and keep it cool. Magnets were packed face-to-face with paper interleaving so surfaces couldn't scuff, in cartons sized so nothing could fold in transit. (The same rules apply to storing magnets at home — see the care guide.) A magnet that arrives creased never sits flush on a panel again, so flat packing wasn't a nicety; it was the product guarantee in cardboard form.

Fundraiser Scheduling

Fundraising groups got the white-glove version of shipping: orders timed to arrive the week before a campaign launch, never so early that boxes sat in a coordinator's garage for a month. Our advice to groups planning a drive is unchanged — count back two weeks from your kickoff date, and have one person responsible for receiving and counting the shipment against the packing list the day it arrives. The full campaign timeline is in the fundraising guide.

Questions About an Old Order

The store's transactional days are behind it, but questions still find us — about a design from a long-ago order, a replacement for a well-loved ribbon, or shipping details from a fundraiser years past. Use the contact page and we'll do our best to help; the refund and exchange policy from the classic era is preserved alongside this page for the record.

Seasonal Peaks

Shipping had seasons just like the catalog did. May and June meant deployment send-offs and yellow-ribbon reorders; September brought the awareness-walk surge as teams geared up for October; the weeks before Christmas belonged to wreath and holiday magnets, packed and shipped on a calendar that worked backward from December 24th. Our packing room's proudest streak was the holiday rush — the wreath magnet announcement went up each November with a promise that orders placed by mid-December would make it under the tree, and in all the classic years that promise held.