Luckily, There's Mail Boxes Etc.
How to use this video
This introduction video provides an overview of the Mail Boxes Etc. franchise and how the business is positioned. As you watch, focus on the core concept, target customer, and the role of the franchise owner. If it seems like a potential fit, the next step is to request more information and speak directly with the franchisor.
About This Video
Luckily, There's Mail Boxes Etc. is the brand's consumer-facing storytelling video on this watch page — a day-in-the-life portrait of Peter, a sales manager at a cosmetic manufacturing company, and his wife Ann, an elementary school teacher and new mother, who navigate the routine shipping, printing, and packaging challenges that come with busy professional lives. The asset operates as the customer-experience standard a Mail Boxes Etc. franchisee inherits and delivers across an entire territory of similar customers. The vignette format walks through the categories of solution MBE delivers across the day. Ann needs to send a personal gift to a friend — fragile pottery without the right packaging — and her local MBE solution team packs it professionally for safe shipment. Peter calls his MBE solution manager mid-morning needing documents in New York by 9 AM the next day; MBE picks up the package from his office, prepares the paperwork, and selects the right courier to ensure the delivery lands on time. Later in the day, Peter uses the same local MBE solution centre to design and print a new catalogue for his company — a reminder that MBE's graphic design and print offering sits alongside packing, shipping, and printing services across the retail network. For prospective Mail Boxes Etc. franchisees, this consumer-storytelling asset is the customer-experience showcase that defines what professional standards a new operator commits to delivering. Every Peter and every Ann in the franchisee's territory is the network's compound revenue engine — they come back for shipping, they come back for printing, they come back when their next paper is due in another city tomorrow morning. The brand's positioning is that MBE makes possible what their day cannot otherwise accommodate; the franchise pitch behind the asset is that an MBE operator gets to deliver that day-in-the-life support at scale across an entire local community of professionals, parents, and small businesses.