New 'Guest Shipping Station' coming to Disney Springs

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Posted: Monday May 6, 2024 11:22am ET by WDWMAGIC Staff

Disney Springs will open a new 'Guest Shipping Station' this month, allowing guests to ship items directly from Walt Disney World.

Disney Springs will soon be home to a new shipping center for guests

Operated by a UPS franchise, the Guest Shipping Station will be located in the former stroller rental location behind the Marketplace Co-Op.

It remains to be seen precisely what services will be offered, but it will be possible to ship merchandise purchased at Walt Disney World back to a home destination. Merchandise shipping is currently arranged at stores during the purchase process, but it appears that with this new shipping station, that may change.

Disney is expected to announce the new 'Guest Shipping Station' soon, along with details on the range of services that will be on offer.

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Gillyanne2 days ago

Has anyone confirmed/denied that they removed it from shops as you purchase? The only reason I can think they would is this (taken from the link @Unbanshee posted above) Rates will vary depending on packaging weight, fragility of contents, shipping destination, and shipping services selected. Visit the Guest Shipping Station to determine your package-specific rate. IIRC the ship from the register when you purchase option, rates were based on your total order. One flower and garden festival I ordered a bunch of the garden statues and pavers. The statue boxes were easily 16x16 if not bigger and weren't light in weight. But I would've paid the same to ship multiples of those, as I would've 20 T-shirt (or whatever the break even $$ would've been). The actual shipping/packaging of the T-shirts would've been a lot cheaper than the shipping of my 4-6 large boxes of heavy items. Not sure how many items now would qualify for this uneven cost/probability of losing money once shipped, but I could totally see them using it as the "excuse"

wdwmagic2 days ago

I believe this is to some extent a test.

castlecake2.02 days ago

This is exactly what it looked like when it was the stroller rental store

cranbiz2 days ago

Another generic themed space. They couldn't even theme it as a UPS Store.

Brian2 days ago

'Guest Shipping Station' is kinda bland. They should really give it a snappy name like Tiana's UPS Adventure or Journey of Boxes.

Unbanshee2 days ago

Some more photos: https://blogmickey.com/2024/05/new-guest-shipping-station-now-available-at-disney-springs/

Nubs703 days ago

Don't forget FedEx Express and FedEx Ground are two separate entities. You cannot ship a FedEx Ground "hold for pickup" package to a FedEx Express hub

Brian4 days ago

Here is a photo from the location. Found on Facebook, it is not my photo.

JMcMahonEsq9 days ago

They are trying to mitigate people worrying about putting things on planes to take them home. Delivery to the resort does nothing to help that

Zummi Gummi9 days ago

This would explain its placement at Disney Springs, too, where there is the largest volume of 3rd party stores.

pigglewiggle10 days ago

Great info, thanks!

castlecake2.010 days ago

This makes the most sense

Markc210 days ago

From what I hear, this isn't replacing the current shipping options at the Disney owned shops. This is primarily for 3rd party shops that do not offer this service as well as helping to support any international shipments that they normally wouldn't get involved with. Disney's own pricing agreement and contract with UPS (and the other parcel carriers) is volume dependent across all their business units - and they're not about to give up any shipping volume to a 3rd party which could potentially hurt their contracted rates company wide.