Blind shipping

Blind shipping strips every trace of the print shop out of the box — no return address pointing to the decorator, no packing slip carrying the shop's logo, no invoice showing per-piece cost, sometimes not even the shop's name on the label's "ship from" line. What goes on the outside instead is the reseller's own name, or a generic third-party address the shop maintains for exactly this purpose.

A merch seller running a Shopify store off a dropship relationship depends on this completely — a customer ordering a tri-blend raglan should see zero indication that a contract printer in another state, not the storefront itself, packed and shipped it. We label blind-ship accounts by hand-checked SKU because one stray printer-branded invoice slipped into a box has, before, cost a reseller their relationship with a customer who went looking for a cheaper direct source.

Confirm blind shipping in writing before the first order ships, and ask specifically what appears on the label's return-address line, not just what's inside the box — a shop's default might still print its own name there unless told otherwise. Request a sample box shipped to yourself first if the relationship is new.

The common mistake: assuming blind shipping is automatic or free. Plenty of shops charge a per-order fee for it, and some won't offer it below a minimum order size, so a reseller shipping single units needs to confirm the policy applies at quantity one, not only on bulk runs.