Frustrated, they hired a courier and started shipping trunks and boxes to Andersen's main Houston office, about six blocks away.

Motorola said it shipped a record 2.4 million digital set-top boxes to meet demand from cable companies.

Mr. Kozlowski then asked the unidentified manager of art collections to ship empty boxes to New Hampshire in place of the paintings, according to the indictment.

We shipped barrels of ale, boxes of hard-baked bread, cheeses, kegs of smoked mackerel and flitches of bacon.

Then the department of transport can quite reasonably say that they are merely shipping empty boxes around the network and cancel all the services.

In fact, one reason most box companies maintain a series of small plants around the country is that it rarely pays to ship boxes more than 150 miles.

The summer of 1992, after her graduation, the authorities say, was when Ms. McVeigh shipped several boxes of military ammunition to her brother, who had just returned from the Gulf War.

Dimensional weight favors shippers of dense objects and penalizes those who ship lightweight boxes.

They all say NOT to ship boxes, since items often get stolen in customs.

A cigarbox wouldn't have served, in this instance, so Long-Drink solved the problem by bringing in a packing crate that had been used to ship boxes of cigars.