Ship Sticks

Ship Sticks is a private specialty shipping company founded in 2011 by Jonathan Marsico and Nicholas Coleman. Based in West Palm Beach, Florida, the company focuses on moving bulky recreational equipment and travel luggage, particularly golf clubs, between a customer's home and a selected destination. Its service is designed for travelers who would otherwise need to check oversized sporting equipment with an airline, transport it themselves, or arrange a shipment independently with a parcel carrier. The company's principal offering combines shipment scheduling, pickup coordination, destination delivery, and insurance through an online interface. Customers can select shipment dates and arrange pickup and delivery for equipment such as golf bags and clubs. The service also provides coverage described in reference material as $200 of consequential insurance and $1,000 of loss insurance. These features position Ship Sticks as a managed logistics service rather than simply a parcel-label marketplace. A distinctive part of the model is its integration with participating golf courses and resorts. The online platform allows users to choose from partner pre-loaded courses, including Bandon Dunes, Grand del Mar, and PGA National. This enables shipments to be routed to recognized golf destinations and can simplify pickup or drop-off at a participating course. The approach is especially relevant to golfers traveling for vacations, destination play, and organized golf trips. Ship Sticks works with major transportation providers including FedEx, UPS, and DHL. According to the available reference material, the company serves more than 220 destinations worldwide. It uses corporate volume discounts and route selection based on shipment origin and destination to offer pricing that the reference describes as approximately half the cost of booking directly with FedEx or UPS individually. Actual prices vary by route, timing, package characteristics, and selected service options; no current pricing figures are included here. The business experienced triple-digit growth after its founding, although the available material does not specify the measurement period or provide independently verifiable financial figures. Ship Sticks later expanded beyond golf through the launch of Shipskis.com, a related vertical dedicated to shipping snow skis and snowboards. This extension applies the company's specialty-shipping model to another category of oversized sports equipment. Ship Sticks remains a privately held specialist logistics brand rather than a publicly traded carrier. Its competitive proposition is built around convenience, destination-specific coordination, access to established parcel networks, and insurance for valuable or difficult-to-transport sporting equipment. The available sources do not establish a broader corporate ownership structure, current revenue, employee count, or a full list of operating locations.

Ship Sticks was established in 2011 by Jonathan Marsico and Nicholas Coleman, with Coleman identified as the company's chief executive officer. The company was created around a specific travel and logistics problem: transporting golf clubs and other oversized recreational equipment can be inconvenient, costly, and difficult to manage through ordinary airline baggage processes or ad hoc parcel shipping. From its base in West Palm Beach, Florida, Ship Sticks developed an online booking and coordination model. Customers could arrange shipment dates, pickups, delivery destinations, and insurance through the service. Rather than operating its own nationwide or international parcel fleet, the company used established carriers, including FedEx, UPS, and DHL. This allowed Ship Sticks to focus on customer-facing coordination, routing, destination handling, and the specialized requirements associated with sports equipment. The company's golf focus was reinforced through partnerships with golf courses and resorts. Its interface included pre-loaded partner destinations such as Bandon Dunes, Grand del Mar, and PGA National. By connecting shipping arrangements with known golf venues, Ship Sticks sought to make delivery and collection more predictable for travelers visiting destination courses. The model also helped distinguish the brand from a generic shipping broker or standard parcel carrier. The company reported triple-digit growth after its founding. The available source does not provide a defined period, revenue figures, or shipment volumes for that claim, so the growth description is best understood as a reported business-development statement rather than a quantified financial history. Ship Sticks' pricing model relied in part on corporate volume discounts and route selection according to shipment origin and destination. The reference material states that this could make the service approximately half the price of using FedEx or UPS directly, though the comparison is not tied to a specific date or standardized shipment example. Ship Sticks also broadened its category coverage through the launch of Shipskis.com. The related vertical specializes in shipping snow skis and snowboards, extending the original golf-equipment proposition into winter sports. The expansion reflects a common operational logic across the categories: both golf clubs and snow equipment are bulky, valuable, and inconvenient for travelers to carry or check. The available material describes Ship Sticks as a private specialty shipping company serving more than 220 destinations worldwide. It does not identify a parent corporation, public listing, acquisition, or change in ownership. It also does not provide a current headquarters address beyond West Palm Beach, Florida, nor does it establish the company's current financial performance. The brand's documented development is therefore primarily one of focused service creation, carrier partnerships, golf-destination integration, and extension into ski and snowboard logistics.

• 2011

  Ship Sticks is founded

  [1]Ship Sticksen.wikipedia.org

  Jonathan Marsico and Nicholas Coleman founded Ship Sticks as a private specialty-shipping company focused on transporting golf clubs and related travel equipment.

• Golf-course destination partnerships developed

  [1]Ship Sticksen.wikipedia.org

  The company added pre-loaded partner golf destinations, including Bandon Dunes, Grand del Mar, and PGA National, to support more convenient pickup and drop-off arrangements.

• Shipskis.com launched

  [1]Ship Sticksen.wikipedia.org

  Ship Sticks expanded into winter-sports logistics with Shipskis.com, a related vertical specializing in shipping skis and snowboards.

A managed specialty-shipping service for travelers who want to send golf equipment, skis, snowboards, or luggage ahead to a destination instead of carrying oversized sporting goods through conventional travel channels.

• Specialty sporting-equipment shipping · 2011

  Ship Sticks golf shipping

  The core service arranges transportation of golf clubs and golf bags to a traveler's desired destination. Through an online interface, customers can schedule shipment dates, organize pickup and delivery, and select eligible golf-course destinations. The service uses parcel-carrier networks and includes insurance provisions described in the available source as $200 of consequential insurance and $1,000 of loss insurance. It is intended to reduce the need to carry or check golf equipment during travel.

• Ski and snowboard shipping

  Shipskis.com

  Shipskis.com is a Ship Sticks-related vertical specializing in transportation of snow skis and snowboards. It extends the parent brand's managed-shipping approach to winter-sports equipment, which shares the characteristics of being oversized, valuable, and inconvenient to transport through ordinary passenger travel. The available material does not provide a separate launch date, ownership structure, or detailed service-level information for the vertical.

• Luggage logistics

  Specialty luggage shipping

  In addition to golf clubs and winter-sports equipment, Ship Sticks offers shipping for other luggage. The service is coordinated through the company's online interface and carrier relationships, with routing and delivery arranged around the customer's selected origin and destination. The available source does not enumerate the full range of accepted luggage types or current service restrictions.

• Use carrier partnerships and volume pricingStrategy

  Background

  Ship Sticks needed to provide broad geographic coverage without operating its own parcel-delivery network.

  Action taken

  The company partnered with FedEx, UPS, and DHL and used corporate volume discounts and route selection based on shipment origin and destination.

  Aftermath

  The model enabled the brand to serve more than 220 destinations worldwide and to market pricing that the available source describes as approximately half the cost of using FedEx or UPS individually.

  Source

• Expand from golf into winter-sports shippingStrategy

  Background

  After establishing a specialty-shipping proposition for golf equipment, the company identified a comparable need among travelers carrying bulky skis and snowboards.

  Action taken

  Ship Sticks launched Shipskis.com as a related vertical focused on shipping skis and snowboards.

  Aftermath

  The move broadened the company's addressable sporting-equipment category while retaining its core logistics and coordination model.

  Source

1. 1Ship Sticksen.wikipedia.org