Believe It or Not, ParcelPedia Does Holiday Wrapping: Wrap Relief For Busy Gift Givers

Do You Offer Holiday Gift Wrapping?

Ever wish the gifts could wrap themselves and ship out without a second errand? We’re pulling back the curtain on how we turned a simple request into a full-service wrap-and-ship workflow that saves time, tames chaos, and actually makes gifting fun. From holiday rushes to birthdays and corporate events, we share how a shipping-first mindset delivers clean lines, safe packaging, and the kind of presentation that makes unboxing feel special.

James walks through the origins of our wrapping service and why it fits so naturally inside a shipping store: big tables, precise cutters, a wall of box sizes, and staff who think in dimensions and durability. You’ll hear how we keep pricing simple by charging per box, how we hit same-day or next-day turnarounds, and why labeling each wrapped item prevents last-minute mix-ups. We talk options too—choose our paper and ribbons or bring your own theme, then decide if the wrapped gift goes inside a shipping carton or heads home ready for the tree.

We get into the fun challenges, including the now-famous puffer jacket that fought back until we double-boxed it. That story captures our broader approach to tricky shapes and oversized items: box first, wrap second. When a standard carton won’t do, we fabricate custom boxes with telescoping or stitched cardboard, then finish with crisp wrapping and clear tags by recipient. It’s the fastest path to a polished look and a safer journey through carriers like US Mail and FedEx, especially when multiple gifts need to arrive together and still feel thoughtfully curated.

If you want fewer errands and better-looking gifts, this is your playbook. Drop the items, pick the style, and let us handle the corners, the labels, and the logistics. Subscribe for more behind-the-counter tips, share this episode with a friend who’s drowning in ribbon, and leave a quick review to help others find smarter ways to ship and save.

To learn more about ParcelPedia visit:
https://www.ParcelPedia.com
ParcelPedia
8992 Preston Road, Suite 110
Frisco, Texas
972- 335-1450

Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_00 (00:04):
Welcome to the Parcelpedia Podcast, the
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in Frisco, Texas.
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(00:26):
smile.
Here's your host, James Banks,owner of Parcelpedia.

SPEAKER_02 (00:33):
From shipping to shredding, Parcelpedia does it
all.
But wait until you hear how theysave your holidays with one
unexpected service.
Welcome back, everyone.
I'm Sophia Yuvet, co-host andproducer, back in the studio
today with owner of Parcelpedia,James Banks.
James, how's it going today?

SPEAKER_01 (00:52):
Hey, Sophia, I'm doing well.
How are you today?

SPEAKER_02 (00:54):
I'm doing well also.
Now it's always great to be herewith you, James.
So let's jump in.
Talk to us about Parcelpedia'sholiday wrapping.

SPEAKER_01 (01:04):
Sure thing.
Yes.
So uh like you said, we offertons of services here at
Parcelpedia.
And one of them that some peopledon't know about, but definitely
want to get the word out, isthat we do offer holiday
wrapping or even gift wrapping,you know, if it's like birthday
or anniversary or something ofthat nature.
So what we do is we have aselect, you know, supply of
wrapping paper and ribbons,things that nature, so you can
peruse, or you can always supplyyour own if you want a certain

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color or your certain pattern.
And what we do is package orwrap your packages just like you
would want them, you know, underthe tree or to give to a friend.
They can be part of the shippingprocess if you want them to open
the box and have like a nicelywrapped gift inside, or it can
be one where we wrap them up andyou just come back and pick them
up.
So we do it every year, normallyobviously closer to the holiday
times when it gets done.
But yeah, we offer it at a verylow rate.

(01:47):
Uh typically we just go off ofthe number of boxes you have.
We don't have like awkward sizefees or anything silly like
that.
Um, so it's pretty low cost.
It's one of those things thatjust helps you get a lot of your
holiday errands done, and thatpart of it's just knocked out,
you know, you don't have toworry about that.
Going around to all thesedifferent stores and malls, and
then at the end of the day, it'slike midnight and you still have
to wrap everything in no onewants to do that.
So if we can help ease the loador uh ease that uh burden, we

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can definitely offer that foryou.
So just wanted to throw that outthere that that's a possibility.
Again, it doesn't have to be aholiday or uh, you know, like
Christmas or something likethat.
It can be a birthday, it couldbe an event.
I mean, if you have an eventcoming up and you want to kind
of get some goodie bags out toyour attendants and you want to
have things wrapped up nicely,bring them by Parcelpedia.
So we typically get things doneif not same day, next day.

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It's all depends on when it'sdelivered to us.
Uh if we get it in the morning,typically we'll have it for you
by that same day.
So it's a very quick turnaround,very easy, it's hands-free for
you, and again, it's pretty lowcost.
So we just love offering that.
We love you know being able tohelp people in that way.
Some people don't even realizeit and and they realize how much
of a help it is to them duringthe holiday time.
So please, you know, feel freeto call, ask any questions you

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have.
And again, you know, if you wantto supply your own, go crazy
with it.
You want ribbons, you know, youwant different paper, that's
fine.
You know, we know how to applythat stuff.
So just bring it.
We do have some things too.
If you if you're not sure whatto have or to use, we'll show
you our supply.
Um, I don't know if we're themost fashionable.
We've got some pretty basicpaper, but we do have it.
So come by anytime you want andcome check it out.

SPEAKER_02 (03:15):
Now, James, what inspired you to offer holiday
wrapping as part of yourservices in the first place?

SPEAKER_01 (03:22):
That that's a great question.
It actually became, it was kindof organic.
It kind of happened where we hada like an elderly customer come
and just asked us.
They had a bunch of stuff, theyhad the paper.
I think they were almostanticipating that yes, because
they had all this stuff readyand they were just like, hey,
you know, I just can't really doit.
Like I used to.
Would y'all mind wrapping it forus?
And I was like, sure, you know,no problem.
So we took it back, wrapped itup.

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I personally don't think I'm theworld's best rapper.
I didn't spend any time at theworkshop as a kid,
unfortunately, up in north theNorth Pole.
But uh, I do the best I can.
But the customer was very, verysatisfied, they were really
ecstatic.
And so when they were done, youknow, we again at the time I
just did it as a favor, and so Iwasn't even you know interested
in charging them for it.

(04:03):
It was just like, yeah, I'llhelp you out, no problem.
You know, you've been cominghere for years.
But then he gave a tip and he'slike, Yeah, that was worth it,
you know.
And it just was like, hey, ifhe's willing to pay for a
service, boom, I mean, you havea that's a service right there.
And it's something thatobviously we have all the
material necessary.
We have the scissors, we havethe flat workshop tables, we
have straight edge cutters, youknow, everything necessary that
you may need, tape, of course,to wrap wrap boxes up.

(04:26):
So I was like, why not justimplement that?
So it's part of the part of theprogram now.
So that's kind of the story ofParcelpedia as far as how we
help the community and others.
It's like things we'vediscovered that, yeah, you know,
I think we can do that.
We can handle that, and let'sjust tack it on, add it on.

SPEAKER_02 (04:40):
So now, what kinds of wrapping options do you
provide?
Paper, bows, themes?

SPEAKER_01 (04:47):
Yes, yes.
So I will say there's uh likethe standard wrap, right, which
I would call just completelywrapped in paper, you know, try
to hide the seams, and a nicebow on top.
If you want like the crossribbon, we can do that too.
You know, we'll pull up theYouTube tutorial, it's okay,
we'll figure it out.
Um, but yeah, I mean, for themost part, just your basic box
wrapping, the ones you see withthe paper or maybe a ribbon on

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it.
I have not tried to wrap in aspecific item.
Typically, anything you give tome, I will box it first.
It's just a six-sided box ismuch easier for me to wrap than
uh the decahedron or whateveryou may bring to me, right?
So I try to just put it all in abox since we have so many boxes
of all sizes.
I just find the closest box sizeto what you're giving me.
And that's cool too, becausesometimes people that give me

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multiple items say, hey, all ofthese are going to one person,
you know, they may be shippingit.
All of these are going to otherperson, so they can all go into
one box, and that way they justhave nice, you know, sectioned
out items.
So that's kind of the gist ofit.
You know, we get it, we box itfor you, we wrap it up, and we
label it.
Because once everything'swrapped, it's kind of hard to
tell what's what, right?
So we make sure to labeleverything as well.
That way nothing getscrisscrossed or confused.
So it's a very good streamlinedservice.

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We love doing it, and you know,we challenge you.
Come come give us a challenge,see uh if we can help you out
this year.

SPEAKER_02 (05:58):
James, what's the most interesting thing someone
has asked you to wrap as aChristmas gift or your holiday
gift?

SPEAKER_01 (06:05):
So I interesting, you know, the gifts I will say
interesting because they'repretty much standard gifts, you
know, clothing, colognes, youknow, games, things of that
nature.
Though I will say my mostchallenging, if if you're okay
with with taking that as ananswer, my most challenging one
was this very nice, verybeautiful, like floor-length big
puffer jacket.

(06:27):
And man, it just did not want togo in the box and stay, you
know, boxy.
It just wanted to expand andexpand.
So like as I'm wrapping it, I'mlike, is this thing growing?
It just kept expanding on me.
So I ended up having to doublebox it to contain you know its
puffiness and then and thenwrapped it.
So it was pretty funny.
It's like I was wrestling on analligator in here, it was just

(06:47):
not working for me.
I was getting a littlefrustrated, but got it figured
out, and we got it wrapped, andthe customer loved it.
So that was a good story by theend of it.
But it was, I wish I had a livefeed I could show you.
It was pretty funny.
I was just like fighting thatthing.
It's like, what is going on?
I measured, I know I measured itbecause I'd measure it, cut the
paper, and then it would notfit.
I was like, what?
What is going on?
So yeah, that was that was apretty good one.

SPEAKER_02 (07:09):
Have you ever wrapped another puffer jacket
again?

SPEAKER_01 (07:13):
Um, I just get a huge box now.
When I see them coming my way,I'm like, you know what?
I'm not even gonna try to makeit nice and tight.
I'm just gonna put it, you'regonna get a big old box, big
crate.
They're like, oh, what is this?
Just a jacket.
What?
That's all?
Like, yeah, sorry.

SPEAKER_02 (07:29):
I'm sure it makes it more entertaining for the person
receiving the gift.

SPEAKER_01 (07:33):
Like, oh my goodness, what could that be?
Why is it so light?
Just a pair of socks.
Like, yeah, you're not trying towrap anything this air.

SPEAKER_02 (07:44):
Okay, one final question for you today.
Um, how do you handle oddlyshaped or oversized gifts other
than a puffer jacket?

SPEAKER_01 (07:53):
Um, yeah, I mean, again, I just try to get the a
box that's gonna be as close toas possible.
Some things are too big.
I mean, I have boxes and they'recapped, right?
I don't have an infinite amountof boxes.
So if I do get something that'stoo large for a box or just
awkwardly shaped, we typicallywill then make the box.
So we take the cardboard or wedo have to do stitching or
telescoping and we make the box.

(08:15):
And that way, when we make thebox, I mean when you make a box,
you know that box, right?
By the time you're done with it.
You you remember making it,breaking it down, everything you
measure, the size.
So it's actually, I'll say it'seasier to wrap, but it's not
really that much more difficultthan a smaller thing or a
standard size, just because youwere you've become intimate with
by that time because you had todo so much measuring.
I mean, making a custom box is alittle bit of work, but we love

(08:36):
doing it because it has a reallygreat impression when someone
brings something that thinksthat this can't be wrapped up,
you know, it's gonna be loose,it's gonna look a little tacky
hanging out, but when they seeit come back and it's nice,
wrapped, perfect to go, youknow, that's a very good
experience for the customer.
So we do enjoy this.

SPEAKER_02 (08:52):
Well, thank you for sharing that festive side of
Parcelpedia, James.
We'll see you next time.

SPEAKER_01 (08:58):
All right, take care.

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