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Where is a good place to acquire large pieces of flat cardboard to ship stuff flat? I'm sure there's a place I'm overlooking, but I'd love to know a store that I can just walk into locally and pick stuff up. If not, Internet resources would be good also.

Thanks!

Try a furniture store. Always large shipping boxes for couch's etc..

That's a pretty good thought.

Is there anyway to just buy pieces of consistent size? I really don't want to have to cut it down myself, and feel like the stuff I get flat from galleries and artists always looks like it's manufactured to a certain size, not cut from larger boxes.

I use masonite to ship flat. It's much stronger so bent packages don't really happen when using it. You can get a 4'x8' sheet for less than $15 at Home Depot or Lowes and they'll usually cut it to whatever size you need.

Different stores seem to call it different names. I've seen it called MDF and tempered hardboard.

Uline has all sorts of boxes and flat carboard. Check out the Corrugated Pads, Easy-fold and Multi-Depth Boxes at this link:

http://www.uline.com/Cls_04/Boxes-Corrugated