Unloading Containers

All of the products we sell arrive from Taiwan and China on 40 foot shipping containers. These are the same shipping containers that occasionally contain (dead) Chinese immigrants hoping to sneak into the country. Four weeks in a metal box cannot be a good thing. Luckily, the only thing that has ever showed up in our containers is bicycle accessories.

Because we're a small company and only have one full time warehouse guy, the four of us in the office pitch in and unload boxes whenever a container shows up. It probably does me good to exercise my pencil arms, but when we get a shipment of locks (45 pound boxes) the aforementioned pencil arms get real tired. Anyhow, here's the riveting procedure:

Boxes get loaded onto pallets:

Pallets get moved close to the appropriate bay in the warehouse:


Boxes get thrown up to the bay and stacked: