If you’re planning an event and don’t drive a suburban, chances are you’re relying on the fabulous invention of FedEx or Men in Brown Shorts for some help getting your items back to the office.

Quick Tip: ask your shipping dept to create pre-printed fed ex slips that already have your office address on the To: section and the account #.  This will save hours of handwriting labels when all you want to do is call it a night.  Don’t have a shipping dept?  Fill these out while watching Project Runway the week before. 

At the end of the night people do get a bit kooky and some of our staff must have had too much punch one evening.  We got our event shipment back to find the guys had run out of packing tape so they “creatively” tied a banner boxes shut with electrical extension cords and sealed a fed-ex slip around the cords.  It was not a pretty site, but fed-ex delivered.